Microsoft Caves, Will Change UAC In Windows 7

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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windows users are STILL more tolerant than ME

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The pain threshold, it turned out, was just two prompts in a session, which DeVaan defined as the time from turning the PC on to turning it off, or a day, whichever is shorter. "If people see more than two prompts in a session they feel that the prompts are irritating and interfering with their use of the computer," DeVaan said.

I get asked for my password when I do something in terminal that requires sudo, but other than that, I don't get a security prompt more than once a day on the average. Again depending on what I'm doing. I can go an entire day and not see one sometime.

I suppose I'd like to spend a day watching a windows7 user and see WHY they are getting all these UAC popups. I can't believe that if the OS is engineered properly if there would be any reason for it with ANY frequency unless you're doing things that *I* might find common, which is not Joe User.

I have my mother's main account on her machine as a limited user, and she knows the admin l/p when needed. I bet she gets asked for it once every 2 weeks at most. (like when a firefox update wants to install, and then it's behaving exactly as expected and desired) THAT'S how I'd expect ALL "typical" computer users to want to see. I'm absolutely certain I'd be getting a phonecall after she got prompt number two (for no good reason) in the same day. Why does it keep doing that? Fix it!