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Microsoft Says Other OSes Should Imitate UAC

Posted by kdawson on from the bring-'em-down-to-our-level dept.

COA writes "Many Vista adopters find User Account Control irritating, but Microsoft thinks it's an approach other OSes should emulate. Microsoft Australia's Chief Security Adviser Peter Watson calls UAC a great idea and 'strategically a direction that all operating systems and all technologies should be heading down.' He also believes Microsoft is charting new territory with UAC. 'The most controversial aspect of Watson's comments all center around the idea that Microsoft is a leader with UAC, and that other OSes should follow suit. UAC is a cousin of myriad "superuser" process elevation strategies, of which Mac OS X and all flavors of Linux already enjoy. The fact is that Microsoft is late to the party with their Microsoftized version of sudo. That's really what UAC is, after all: sudo with a fancy display mechanism (to make it hard to spoof) and extra monitoring to pick up on "suspicious" behavior.'"

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  1. Obligatory by gunnk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft would is trying to make you believe sudo was their idea. Cancel or Allow?

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    1. Re:Obligatory by HomelessInLaJolla · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you click "Cancel" an information box is displayed informing you of a patent pending.

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  2. Hello Microsoft by The+Anarchist+Avenge · · Score: 5, Funny

    From TFA: "Why should I be letting my normal user be running as system administrator?" Welcome to the 1980s

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  3. sudo by Inmatarian · · Score: 5, Funny

    make me a sandwich.

  4. Call Theo! by hahiss · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, it is about time those OpenBSD pikers got off their collective asses and followed the World Leader in Secure Operating Systems: Microsoft.

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  5. Make me a sandwich! by Falkkin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why use UAC when a much more intuitive sudo interface has already been developed?

  6. Re:news flash by jellomizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    My version of DOS has nothing close, Neither do my versions of Windows 3.1, 95, 98, ME, 2000, or XP. A Ton Of OS's dont have anything even remotly close to UAC.

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