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(Unverified)Apr 12th 2008 7:48AM
Way to go, MS. That's exactly what made me switch from MSExplorer to Firefox. A company with no customers is a happy company...
(Unverified)Apr 14th 2008 2:06PM
It's funny you should mention the difference between IE and Firefox, because Vista's UAC is the Firefox to XP's IE. Here's what I mean: in IE, the "forgiving" HTML rendering encouraged people to write terrible web pages, sometimes tailoring them to IE's foibles. FF came along and enforced standards better than what IE had been doing, highlighting the bad code people were already writing.
Likewise, in XP programmers who write package installers can abuse admin privileges to indulge in all kinds of bad system-security practices, because pretty much everybody runs in an admin account. In Vista, they're trying to push software authors do to things the "right" way, using the provided mechanisms to create installers that don't violate security best practices, just like how FF stuck to their guns and called web authors out on their errors.
I'm not saying UAC is the best way to handle the problem, but I do have to applaud them for (finally) actually doing something about it.