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Details on Refining Vista's User Control

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the progress-moving-forward dept.

borgboy writes "Windows Vista has gotten a lot of negative press recently following the release of the latest beta, especially regarding excessive prompting for privilege escalation for seemingly common activities. On his blog, Steve Hiskey, the Lead Program Manager for User Account Control in the Windows Security Core group, details what the issues with the excessive prompting are, what the design goals of the feature are, and how they plan to achieve them. Briefly - they know the excessive prompting is a royal pain, they know that have to reduce it to an absolute minimum to be both productive AND an effective security risk mitigation measure, and they want as much feedback as they can get on the beta."

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  1. Windows... Bah by Enigmafigment · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This is a sad attempt by windows to increase the security of there lacking security in previous OS's. Well thats no surprise. Just a little interesting information, instead of using the Windows Network operating systems that they produce, NT, 2000, etc, there MSN server main host terminal, the connection for the whole network itself to the net past LAN, is a FreeBSD server. A blatant way of them saying, not even we trust or software to be safe.

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    "Some people think these questions are hard... ... I don't these questions all have answers."
  2. Re:Huge Difference by oh_my_080980980 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "The value of Windows has always been in its backward compatibility, and Microsoft cannot give that up without risking their dominance in the market."

    I don't think you are trolling but....BULL SH*T!

    Backwards compatibility! In Windows!! All you have to do is look at XP's SP2 and you will find a whole host of programs that will no longer work. The user is left holding the bag on that one, hoping the software company produces a patch. In some cases software companies don't bother and tell the user to upgrade to the newest version. Thus the user is forced to pay double for an application that was suppose to work under XP!!

    And I can on back to Windows 95 with compatibiity issues. That's not even raising the issue with MS Office and backwards compatibility.

    That's one of MS's biggest lie backwards compatibility. With Vista it will be worse.