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1. Comment - Microsoft: Please Don't Disable UAC

   (Jun 29, 2006 - 9:32 AM)

   This article is inaccurate - Mac OS X (the OS stands for operating system FYI) does not only ask users to enter their password once. I don't know where the author is obtaining that information, but it's completely untrue and is being used to imply the OS X has inferior security, which couldn't be farther from the truth. Just because Mirosoft is finally trying to secure their patchwork OS does not mean it's open season on MS biased authors to start implying other operating system have inferior security. Windows has a very, very long way to go before it can be put in the same play pen as OS X and other advanced operating systems.
   
   As for UAC, it's good that Microsoft is trying to increase security. However, the means to that end have to be acceptable to users, otherwise, they're just going to disable / ignore it. I'm a computer scientist, not an IT Tech, but my friends and family call me up to "fix" their 'puters all the time. I'm 100% certain I'm going to get calls asking if I can "get rid" of these annoying messages for them and you know what? I'm going to do it. I'm an "advanced" user but I find OS X's prompts reasonable and have made no attempt to disable them. Vista (so far)? Not so much.
   
   A security feature disabled is no security feature at all.
   
   As for Bill Gates, he's leaving. He's getting old and he's got a lot of money to blow before he dies. We can't read his mind or verify his public reasons for leaving, so it's pointless to speculate. In any case it's bad news for Microsoft unless it leads to better business practices, which I very much doubt.
   
   As for WinFS (Vista's 'killer' feature for those of you that have forgotten), it's not coming so don't wait for it. Vaporware FTW!