Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Vista designed to annoy

A Microsoft manager has said that one of the security features in Vista was <A HREF="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9590_22-6237191.html?tag=nl.e550">deliberately designed to annoy users</A> to put pressure on third-party software makers to make their applications more secure.

David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft, was the group program manager in charge of designing User Account Control (UAC), which, when activated, requires people to run Vista in standard user mode rather than having administrator privileges, and offers a prompt if they try to install a program.

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