Details on Refining Vista's User Control

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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Here's how to delete a file on Windows Vista

[ASkGNet]

Just a few clicks away
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Re:Here's how to delete a file on Windows Vista

[$RANDOMLUSER]

That's hysterical. I bet it takes fewer clicks to format a hard drive.

Re:Slashdot on Vista

[Rik Sweeney]

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Re:Why the interest?

[stupidfoo]

Three reasons:
1. You can save your game in solitaire
2. You can save your game in freecell
3. It includes a super pretty chess game!

Re:It's Still In Beta Folks!

[Tim C]

I don't think posting "lololololol!!!1! M$ suX0rz, Linux r0ck0rz!!!111!!" to slashdot counts as feedback.

Re:malware safeguards

[brouski]

You remind me of one of those creeps on Stormfrot or similar that can turn any news story into a rant about Jews.