Vista's UAC is annoying shocka
VOLISH platform chief Steven Sinofsky has finally acknowledged that the User Account Control in Windows Vista may have been a wee bit annoying.
Sinofsky said that his inbox was full of 'suggestions' from developers about what he could do with the UAC. This is in addition to a few jokes that have appeared on Youtube.
He said that Vole got a lot of feedback about Vista and had to sit back, re-evaluate, and say, "What did we learn from that?"
With UAC, Microsoft had started on the road to hell with "the best intentions " in mind. However, he acknowledged that informing the user about what's going on and getting consent "possibly went too far."
After all punters don't want their operating system to warn them that there is air in the room, it might rain, and Luxemburg is small for a nation state.
He also admitted that the device driver model probably wasn't ready at the time of Vista's launch. He said that Windows 7 would have a UAC but managed to avoid saying what it would look like.
The Pre-Beta version of Windows 7 has four settings for configuring how intrusive UAC will be. µ
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I'm reminded of this when I hear people whine about Vista in general and UAC in particular:

"Good, fast, cheap: pick any two at the expense of the third."
...damned if they don't.

People moan about security - but god help MS if they implement any, especially if it happens to cost the user a click. UAC noise is remarkably low (even on Vista) in reality and the up side (which people seem to ignore) is that you can use a PC without needing to be administrator (which is ridiculous for the majority of us on a daily basis) all the darn time (and thus everything you run has full access to EVERYTHING too). Yes it wasn't perfect at inception - thing's rarely are - but it continues to evolve and improve as does Windows software as a result.

God save us from so called "power" users who think they know better and instantly disable it.

IF MS intended it as a stick to beat developers into producing sensible applications then it's worked for us - we're now (after much work) completely compliant. 

Retrospectively I think we ought of made the changes years ago but unless there's a good reason to do it (you try telling your clients that they can't have secure systems!) then it's hard to justify the time/efffort.

Sorry to sully the general urge to flog MS over Vista at the inq..
Oh, come now! Does Microsoft really expect us to believe that after all the useability testing they told us they did on Vista , that they had NO clue that the UAC was annoying?

Just another lying corporate butt-boy. As differentiated from a lying government butt-boy.
Let me guess the four levels :

1) Bother me all the time.
2) Accept what Microsft says and bother me with all the other stuff.
3) Accept what Microsft says and what anybody who pays Microsoft enough money says ($profit).
4) I won't bother you at all but you're no longer in control of your own computer.
Tears of Croccadile ceased when reading article today on Microsoft Azure operating System. Its FREE To Selected FEW.

It is CLOUD, So You Know its HOT. Cloud uses' Discrete Virtualiztion of home terminal/Computer with Server Farm of Data. ALL Banked Ultee', Errr....I Mean Newbie!.

Now with Big Server Bank Running Your Home Operations, special NEW ?improved or even just plain 100
% NEW, O/S is being supplied: Azure. 

Ask Genhtlemen d' Specs, Clyde.

UAC- isn't thats its crush proof. Its that Most users like to Play Speed Demon with Mouse & Start Software or sequence often without full preperation internally.

Ultimate Media Center gets Stronger, yet it will be intresting if better model can be incorporated in new TOP O/S from Microsoft.
In Which Case Penquin Eating Butterfly Has Arrived.
STeWie Drashek

PS Heres Snip:CLOUD is abstract concept is a new one and very challenging to developers. In basic principle, it’s the concept of offloading tasks from workstations to cloud clusters -- high powered groups of servers. This setup leverages modern high-speed internet connections to deliver data storage, applications hosting and more.

Cloud computing is tremendously popular, as it is widely viewed as the future of web hosting. One key reason for this is that cloud computing allows applications to easily scale to match rising or falling demand, without shifting local hardware. In order to deliver increasingly rich applications over an internet interface, moving to a cloud computing architecture becomes increasingly necessary. However, until now cloud computing lacked a single iconic operating system specially designed for it.

That has all changed with the release of Microsoft's Azure. 
it has Logo too,spiritual translucent Primitive South American Blow Gunners' thin face in liquid like blur Red mask& Mainly just eyesockets,floating inTransparent haze, Sort of Ghost like or christmas future...,
I have never found UAC annoying and my wife (Who is a luddite) has it on her laptop and has never expressed any form of frustration or panic from UAC.
People like the aforementioned luddite wife are, by definition, incapable of determining when UAC is warning about something malicious versus warning about something benign. Since more than 99% of the time, the event is benign, it trains users to just click OK without thinking and the end result is that the user is no more protected against malware than they would be without UAC.
UAC is useless.

The power user already knows the potential dangers of clicking on various files and such so he doesn't need UAC.

The novice user does not know the potential dangers and thus gets the "warning", but in my experience with novices - they click it anyway because they don't really appreciate what they are being warned of. They then lose precious productivity time or never get to enjoy the use of their computer because they were too afraid to continue or they have to go find someone to explain why they "can not" continue.

UAC is useless.
Sorry, that logo I mentioned as ?Red spirit is actually logo for hp VooDoo computers. Not operating system.

Don't just run to OS X tiger, for that. Try Em ALL. Go Alpha.
drashek
Is MS going to fix the s***ty backup in Vista? You cannot select files, only "file types" like "documents" or "music" etc.

Vista being slow to bootup, a new Vista pc is slower than a 2 year old XP pc even though the Vista is on faster hardware. FFS.

Networking - looks pretty, appears that it might be useful, but it's a PITA to use and it's unclear. 1 VIsta pc in an office means all the XP PC's now need LDAP downloaded and installed from MS for network file sharing etc to work. MS failed big time here.

Vista has many failures, UAC is actually ok if a bit clumsy. It's like Zonealarm.
The irony is that Dimdows NT had a perfectly good security model, with multiple users, ACLs and everything. But they severely compromised it in Dimdows XP just to increase the appeal to the consumer market.

And now the corruption is endemic among the third-party software developers, who are used to running roughshod all over the user's machine. UAC is an attempt to rein them in, but all it achieves is to annoy both users and developers.

The Unix/Linux world was always much more disciplined. Hence there never was any need for a UAC equivalent--the system is inherently more secure.
UAC can only remember applications created by microsoft or need for microsoft but cannot remember some rival applications. The workaround is using "task scheduler", I use it on Symantec LiveUpdate and SpeedFan.