{"id":648,"date":"2008-05-30T13:07:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T12:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2008-05-30T13:07:55","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T12:07:55","slug":"microsofts-misunderstood-misunderstandings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/648-microsofts-misunderstood-misunderstandings.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft’s Misunderstood Misunderstandings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has revised its document<\/a> describing Five Misunderstood features in Windows Vista. <\/p>\n

I’m not going to analyse the revisions, as others<\/a> have done that<\/a>, though I will mention in passing that Adobe Acrobat’s Compare Documents feature does a nice job of showing the revisions:<\/p>\n

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However, I would like to highlight this comment to Steven Poole’s post<\/a>, from Microsoft’s Brandon Paddock<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Those changes were made because the original article was written without the involvement of the engineering teams and so it contained a great deal of inaccuracy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Quite a confession. <\/p>\n

The trouble is, even fixing inaccuracies doesn’t rescue the document from its faulty presumption that Vista’s poor public image is all down to misunderstandings. That ain’t straight talking. That’s spin.<\/p>\n

The irony is that some features of Vista are<\/strong> misunderstood – UAC especially. Here’s some real straight talking<\/a> on the subject, from Marc Russinovitch:<\/p>\n

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The bottom line is that elevations were introduced as a convenience that encourages users who want to access administrative rights to run with standard user rights by default. Users wanting the guarantees of a security boundary can trade off convenience by using a standard user account for daily tasks and Fast User Switching (FUS) to a dedicated administrator account to perform administrative operations. On the other hand, users who want to forgo security in favor of convenience can disable UAC on a system in the User Accounts dialog in the Control Panel, but should be aware that this also disables Protected Mode for Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Perfect.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: uac<\/a>, vista<\/a>, security<\/a>, microsoft<\/a>, windows<\/a><\/div>\n

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