It would require far more re-writing of the windows OS than anyone is willing to do. but at least a thin layer of abstraction between standard users and administrators on windows machines is essential.
the people who know what they are doing can know how to turn it off, and everyone else needs to be logged in as a regular user. typing your password in when you install something is not the worst thing in the world. the amount of things you're going to need to type in reconfiguring your computer once you have to reformat it is going to be much worse.
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call me when they compile out the horrendous syntax and inconsistent nature of the language. have these people heard of ruby?
Oh come on, it's not even April Fool's Day!
It would require far more re-writing of the windows OS than anyone is willing to do. but at least a thin layer of abstraction between standard users and administrators on windows machines is essential. the people who know what they are doing can know how to turn it off, and everyone else needs to be logged in as a regular user. typing your password in when you install something is not the worst thing in the world. the amount of things you're going to need to type in reconfiguring your computer once you have to reformat it is going to be much worse.