Microsoft responds to UAC criticism in W...
Posted by Al in Windows 7 News on 02 8th, 2009 | 1 Comment
After much criticism towards a huge UAC security flaw discovered by the Windows community, Microsoft shocked everyone when they simply dismissed the security flaw by insiting it as “by design,” stating that it will remain intact in the final version of Windows 7. The problem was that UAC...
Huge Security Flaw in Windows 7 UAC...
Posted by Al in Windows 7 News on 01 31st, 2009 | 5 Comments
User Access Control in Windows Vista annoyed a lot of people, so Microsoft made a couple of changes to make it “less-annoying” by providing users the option of customizing the frequency of notifications. UAC has also learned to differentiate between changes made by programs, and changes made...
Featured Article: Why UAC works and how ...
There’s been a lot of confusion around User Account Control (UAC), even almost 2 years after the concept was introduced in Windows Vista. This is largely due to Microsoft overestimating the ability of third-party developers to develop or change software that will be “UAC friendly,”...
Microsoft to rework Windows 7 UAC to be ...
Posted by Al in Windows 7 News on 10 9th, 2008 | 8 Comments
The Engineering Windows 7 blog sheds more light as to what we can expect in Windows 7. This blog post was a particularly interesting one because it addresses a feature that I’m sure every Vista user found annoying at some point: User Access Control. Ben Fathi goes over why they introduced the...
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