Security Features in Vista was Deliberately Designed to "annoy users"

A Microsoft manager has said that one of the security features in Vista was deliberately designed to "annoy users" to put pressure on third-party software makers to make their applications more secure

Microsoft product manager in the department, the group was to design a program manager in charge of user account control (uac), which, when activated, people need to run in standard mode in Vista without administrative privileges to users, and and offers a prompt if they try to install a program.

"The reason we uac (Vista) give users the platform - i 'm serious," said Cross, speaking here, the R SA conference Thursday. "Most users have administrator privileges of the old Windows system administrator privileges are required to install most applications, and running."

Cross insists that the users will be inconvenienced part of Microsoft's strategy to coerce independent software vendors (isvs) in order to create more secure code, the code is unstable, as a trigger, prompt, execute code from the user despair.

Prior to the launch of Vista, Kaspersky issued a report in January 2007 that said UAC would be ineffectual. The company claimed that many applications perform harmless actions that, in a security context, can appear to be malicious. As UAC flashes up a warning every time such an action is performed, Kaspersky said that users would be forced to either blindly ignore the warning and allow the action to be performed or disable the feature to stop themselves from going "crazy."