Windows 7 To Dial Down UAC

Barence writes "Engineers working on Windows 7 have admitted Vista's User Account Control was too intrusive, and are promising to tone it down in the forthcoming Windows 7. 'We've heard loud and clear that you are frustrated,' says Microsoft engineer Ben Fathi. 'You find the prompts too frequent, annoying, and confusing. We still want to provide you control over what changes can happen to your system, but we want to provide you a better overall experience.' According to Fathi, when Vista first launched, 775,312 unique applications were producing prompts — so some may be annoyed that it won't be scrapped entirely, but at least Microsoft is listening. The comments echo those of Steve Ballmer, who admitted at a conference in London that 'the biggest trade-off we made was sacrificing security for compatibility. I'm not sure the end-users really appreciated that trade-off.'"

Comments

Re:Cancel or allow what?!

[nobodyman]

How do you *know* that it's Apple's software updater that's causing the UAC box to appear, and not an opportunistic bit of malware that's been watching for the software update dialog to show up?

You're presupposing that the vista box in question has already been corrupted by malware. Isn't your question moot then?

Furthermore, why would the malware need to sit in wait for the software update dialog to show up. Why not invoke the sofware updater, or better yet just fake a software update dialog?