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Remember the Windows 95 release and the advertising slogan from Microsoft? Well times have changed and it seems Microsoft are applying a different philosophy. “Where” and “Go” have been replaced by “Who” and “annoy” with the announcement that they intended UAC to annoy people in Vista. Yep - it’s not a goof folks, according to David Cross, a product manager at Microsoft, it’s intentional. A carefully considered action to force all those using Admin as the default install on Windows (and running that as their main account) to quit in order to avoid all those nasty security breaches Windows users so dearly love. In addition those pesky ISV ’s (and mISV’s - we’re included in this) are being forced to stop installing data into directories designed for programs, stop requiring admin priv’s for installs and other basic tasks.
They’re telling us now? Talk about the bleeding obvious!
Hmmm. Couldn’t Microsoft have looked at some examples twelve years ago and got a clue from there about the potential of allowing these kind of things in the first place? There were plenty of them - then and now. But then nobody would ever need more than 128k of RAM - huh? 
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Maybe the next version of Windows will have something like Sudo - eh? I can imagine the exploits the malware brigade will rush to implement already.
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