Ed Bott weighs in on UAC

With Windows 7 on the roadmap, it would be a great opportunity for Microsoft to tweak UAC so that it actually makes sense. Personally, I think it�s vital from a standpoint of security.

Ed Bott over at ZDNet weighs in on the issue.

�I was all prepared to lay out my modest proposal for how Microsoft should tweak UAC in Windows 7. And then I said, �Hey, wait a minute! I already did this.�

And sure enough, with a little help from Google I was able to reread �How Microsoft can save User Account Control.� which I wrote way back in May 2006, while Vista was still in beta. In that post, I offered four �suggestions that might ease the pain� of UAC. Two years later, I think those recommendations are still valid, so I�m reprinting them here, with a little updated commentary on each one:"

Link here.

Alex Eckelbery