Looking at Vista’s User Account Control

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Looking at Vista’s User Account Control

By Adam Myers ⋅ May 4, 2006 ⋅

I blogged ever so briefly about Vista’s new User Account Control before and what it will mean to users in its current form so I’m quite happy to find that ZDNet is experiencing the same type of mind-numbing annoyances with UAC as I.

It’s clear that Microsoft is attempting to instill safe practices to it’s userbase; you should not run Windows under the Administrator account. Fabulous idea, no one can argue that. However its current implementation is just a nightmare to work with and those of us that are already the “family tech guy” are in for a real treat in a year as Vista becomes more prevelant. The user/permission paradigm is just not a part of the average Windows user’s technology-trained mind. That’s probably the first hurdle in the security marathon. Secondly, many many applications in their current iterations fail miserably under UAP. One of Windows strengths is in its ability to run software from 10 years back - this just isn’t going to fly any longer.

I still have what may be misguided faith that Microsoft will polish this up, because, whether we all want to admit it, this is desperately needed.

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