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Microsoft Caves, Will Change UAC In Windows 7

Posted by kdawson on from the more-better dept.

CWmike writes "Reacting to intense criticism of an important security feature in Windows 7 (which we discussed a few days back), Microsoft today said it will change the behavior of User Account Control in Windows 7's release candidate. In a blog post, two Microsoft executives responsible for Windows development, John DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky, said 'We are going to deliver two changes to the Release Candidate that we'll all see. First, the UAC control panel will run in a high integrity process, which requires elevation. Second, changing the level of the UAC will also prompt for confirmation.' They said the changes were prompted by feedback from users, including comments on an earlier post Thursday by DeVaan in which he defended the modifications Microsoft made to UAC in Windows 7."

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  1. Intense? by jamesl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Intense criticism? Define "intense."

    Isn't this how it's supposed to work? Release pre-production code to the community. Listen to comments. Respond to comments as appropriate.

    Now define "over the top."

  2. The entire concept is broken by landimal_adurotune · · Score: 5, Insightful

    With the initial Vista UAC people were trained to just click yes to everything or they would turn off the function entirely. With Windows 7 it is far less frustrating but the User part of the UAC is what is broken, there is no substitution for actually educating users. That is something that is far out of MS's reach IMHO.