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In Defense Of One Of Vista's Most Annoying Features
The UAC warning goes up whenever an application tries to take administrator privileges. UAC is Microsoft's way of trying to beat developers into writing applications that don't make quite so many requests for admin privileges, which are unnecessary.
By the way, did you ever notice that, in religious arguments about operating systems, the Vista guys always say, "Vista isn't so terrible! You stupid Microsoft-haters are making it sound worse than it is!" Sure, they're passionate about defending Vista, but they never say, "Vista is great!" they just say, "It's not so terrible!" Disclaimer: I've never used Vista myself; I'm a Mac guy. « Windows Is Collapsing! | Main | Simple Tricks For Getting The Most From Your iPhone » |
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