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[John W. Moore III]

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Robert J. Hansen wrote:

> (As an example of what suggestions like this lead to in practice, look
> at Vista's User Access Control.  HCI studies have shown UAC does not
> provide better security.  UAC is designed to give users a last chance
> opportunity to prevent programs from running with elevated privileges,
> but it does not actually do this.  UAC was not designed to train users
> to blindly click "Yes" without thinking at all about what they're doing,
> but that's what it actually does.)

Actually, what has occurred is disabling UAC is the most common &
popular 'tweak' to Vista.  In fact, UAC is rated such a High Annoyance
that it has been made "more User friendly" in Windows 7.

- From My perusal of early Windows 7 Alpha reviews the 'Newest' M$
offering appears to be Vista re-released with 2 years of Vista hacks
incorporated into the default Settings code.  This goes back to Robert's
statement that the Developer Goal is to make successful Applications
'User Friendly' rather than 'Idiot Proof'.

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Tuesday 04 Nov 2008, 12:41  --500 (Eastern Standard Time)
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