Microsoft Employees May Lose Admin Rights

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday May 23, 2006 @02:43AM from the root-to-moot dept.

daria42 writes "As Microsoft moves its internal desktop systems to Windows Vista, the company is contemplating whether to change a long running tradition and take away admin rights from its employees in order to improve security." From the article: "'We haven't made that final determination yet. We would like to absolutely look at scenarios where we can look at elements of User Access Control -- that is the feature in Vista -- so that we can start moving in that direction ... It is a tough balance and every company has to decide what is right for them,' said Estberg. However, Estberg said that for the moment, the company will continue to leave the responsibility of installing software with its employees."

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Re:Eat your own dog food by towsonu2003 · 2006-05-23 03:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I hate to be the MS supporter here (and I rarely do), but Microsofts permission model is just as powerful as UNIX's. It is just harder to learn. But not that much harder.
A bug in moderators? Did anyone file it yet?
Parent is funny not insightful.