Comment Re:Since We're Doing Car Analogies (Score 1) 221
Heh, but they're being quite reasonable:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsv ista/features/details/useraccountcontrol.mspx
It's just that the majority of users aren't going to read that, or the quite reasonable consumer security guidelines. They can fix that by linking to guidelines (like the guide linked at the bottom of the above page) as part of the UAC warning. They won't though, because some marketing type will worry that it will alienate non-technical users. I don't think UAC is a bad thing, it's just a sucky implementation. This is in-part down to non-compliance of applications, but I think the blame there lies dually with Microsoft and developers that claim their apps are Vista Ready.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windows
It's just that the majority of users aren't going to read that, or the quite reasonable consumer security guidelines. They can fix that by linking to guidelines (like the guide linked at the bottom of the above page) as part of the UAC warning. They won't though, because some marketing type will worry that it will alienate non-technical users. I don't think UAC is a bad thing, it's just a sucky implementation. This is in-part down to non-compliance of applications, but I think the blame there lies dually with Microsoft and developers that claim their apps are Vista Ready.
