Microsoft's Plea: Don't turn off User Account Control
eWeek | at | by Mike
A Microsoft security guru is pleading with Windows Vista beta testers to not turn off the User Account Control feature, regardless of how annoying it is.
Jesper Johansson, a senior security strategist in the Security Technology Unit at Microsoft, admits that the current implementation of UAC presents too many privilege escalation pop-up prompts, but he insists there is a method to the apparent madness.
"Unless we get feedback on what works and what does not, we can't fix it. If you disable critical technologies that we are trying to get to work, we can't fix them," Johansson said in a blog entry. "That means that, yes, some things will be annoying and not work quite right in the final release, unless people work with us to fix them," he added.