UAC Designed to Annoy Users

2008-04-12 04:05:53

#1

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6725|The Twilight Zone

At the RSA 2008 confab in San Francisco, Microsoft admitted that UAC was designed, in fact, to annoy. Microsoft's David Cross came out and said so: "The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I'm serious," said Cross.

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UAC's real purpose is quite simple: it's meant to trip whenever a routine attempts to elevate security privileges, and get in your face. As we have reported before, this has two goals: a) it give users a chance to approve of the elevation in the off chance that something wrong is happening, and b) it encourages developers to design their software such that privilege elevations aren't needed in the first place. The latter is really the point of UAC, since users have absolutely zero control over the privilege requests their applications make (other than to chose not to install said apps).

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2008-04-12 04:19:05

#2

TheEternalPessimist: Wibble; +412|6892|Mhz

Unfortunatly due to it being so fucking annoying, nearly everyone disables it thus defeating the point of having it in the first place. Great thinking on their part there, cretins lol.

2008-04-12 04:50:33

#3

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6925

TheEternalPessimist wrote:
Unfortunatly due to it being so fucking annoying, nearly everyone who knows what they're doing and are thus not the intended audience for Microsoft's scheme disables it thus defeating the point of having it in the first place. Great thinking on their part there, cretins lol.

fixed.

2008-04-12 04:57:42

#4

TheEternalPessimist: Wibble; +412|6892|Mhz

Actually you have a point there, sort of. Said numpties get people like myself to come turn it off for them though.

2008-04-12 05:00:54

#5

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6839|NYC / Hamburg

Lucien wrote:
TheEternalPessimist wrote:
Unfortunatly due to it being so fucking annoying, nearly everyone who knows what they're doing and are thus not the intended audience for Microsoft's scheme disables it thus defeating the point of having it in the first place. Great thinking on their part there, cretins lol.
fixed.

agree. I have UAC turned off on my PC, but I have it turned on on my parents PCs to keep them from doing stupid stuff. So far it's worked great for me since they can't reorganize system32 or whatever they do to fuck up their PCs every week

_{once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.}

2008-04-12 05:05:59

#6

Fat_Swinub: jaff; +125|6707

To be honest, as annoying as UAC is when I just want to set the time/date, it's the best compromise between security/functionality.

2008-04-12 05:07:36

#7

mikkel: Member; +383|6873

UAC is a great system. Windows developers and hoppyist programmers have always been horrible at having their user applications leverage only user-level rights, and what better way to stop the trend than to force them to do it the right way?

2008-04-12 06:02:51

#8

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6853|SE London

mikkel wrote:
UAC is a great system. Windows developers and hoppyist programmers have always been horrible at having their user applications leverage only user-level rights, and what better way to stop the trend than to force them to do it the right way?

Exactly.

Which is why Microsoft want it to be annoying. So users prefer programs that are written properly.

2008-04-12 08:59:02

#9

Sydney: 2λчиэλ; +783|7115|Reykjavík, Iceland.

Two letters

XP

nuff said. Vista ftl.

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