June 01, 2006

Vista RC1 will be Reducing Elevation Prompts

After my rant about Microsoft needing to eat its own dogfood when it came to UAC, I was happy to see Steve Hiskey from the Windows Security Core team blog about the fact that UAC prompting in RC1 of Vista will be MUCH better.

Their plan makes a lot of sense:

  1. Make changes in the OS to create safe scenarios for the Standard User to accomplish tasks that used require an elevation prompt.
  2. Apply application compatibility fixes (“shims”) for the applications that need help running as Standard User.
  3. Work with ISVs to update the applications that can’t be shimmed and to design the future applications so that the next generation run well as Standard User.

This is all old stuff, but you need to read his post to see that they get the problem, and are working to resolve it. I can't wait to see how the UAC experience differs in RC1.

Posted by SilverStr at June 1, 2006 04:54 PM | TrackBack
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