Windows 7 is now in Release Candidate status (build 7100, May 2009), and many are trying this new operating system. Those who skipped past Vista from XP are finding a new experience and an entirely new security paradigm: User Account Control.


UAC was introduced with Vista and was widely maligned due to its in-your-faceness, and though it's calmed down some as Vista has been updated, it seems to have really hit its stride in Windows 7. I like UAC a lot.

But even in its imperfect form, it was a good idea, attempting to brighten the terribly blurry line between administrative tasks and user tasks that has plagued Windows since the early days.

Much of this is due to the early consumer operating systems Win95, Win98, and WinME, which maintained no technical distinction between these roles: everybody was always an administrator, and software developers had no way of even thinking about a separation of roles.

But even with the more modern NT-based systems Windows 2000 and Windows XP, it was so painful to really get your work done as a non-administrative user that most people simply gave up and ran with an admin account. This was almost entirely due to poor habits by software developers: they themselves ran as admins, and simply wrote sloppy code that assumed everybody was one too.

Microsoft has been trying very hard to counter this everybody-is-an-admin mentality, and UAC was their attempt at compromise: if you're going to run as admin, at least we can make you aware of the role differences. This is what UAC is attempting to do.


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Source : unixwiz