Microsoft needs to “borrow” another design from its competitors with the UAC the same way it has “borrowed” all the features it had put into Internet Explorer. Take the Linux/Mac password prompt and use it instead of all the UAC popups. While they are at it they need to combine some of the multiple prompts that currently come up. We need fewer prompts not more!

Windows 7 will actually include a slider so that you can actually choose how often you’d like to receive prompts. So your wish will be granted in the next version of Windows.

First people complained that you were required to give permission for too many aspects of the OS. Now there are not enough prompts.

Which is it?

I think that it provides the right amount of prompts now but the UAC should be able to get disabled from another program. This is something that the users should have to do through the Control Panel.

Which is it?

I was being interviewed at our corporate office in Cincinnati, OH for a promotion and move to our beverage plant in Irving, TX. I work for Kroger Manufacturing, yes, the food chain.

One of the 4 interviewers, having read my resume and my extensive experience and collateral jobs in computing, spent half the interview asking me questions about his home computers.

He was considering buying an Apple Mac for his daughter and mentioned that they are more secure and do not have the problems with viruses, spyware, etc.

While I told him that is true in a way, and that macs have a decent secure OS, I had to tell him that if Apple had the majority share of the computing market and Microsoft was the minority, then it would be reversed and Windows would appear the more secure OS.

FYI…I recommended that he buy a Mac for his daughter because she is going to school for graphics arts, and she asked for one.

I remember when Windows XP was originally released the activation was hacked within 2-hours. With Vista being released to businesses a lot earlier than it is to consumers we can be guaranteed that it will be cracked and leaked before the projected consumer launch date.