ZDOne writes "A senior Microsoft manager has been surprisingly candid, or dumb, depending on your standpoint about one of the chief bugbears about Vista.
Speaking at the RSA conference, David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft, said the User Account Control (UAC) feature in Vista was deliberately designed to "annoy users" in order to put pressure on third-party software makers to make their applications more secure.
Cross, the group program manager in charge of designing UAC said: "The reason we put UAC into the [Vista] platform was to annoy users — I'm serious. Most users had administrator privileges on previous Windows systems and most applications needed administrator privileges to install or run."" Link to Original Source
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