re: Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) - love it?

ChadStrunk — Thu, 18 May 2006 20:22:58 GMT

Honestly...I really don't know. It will all depend upon how much an average user can do without administrator rights. I can't have 1500 students coming down to the Help Desk because they can't install software. My team would die.

As it is, in education, nothing *major* happens during the school year. Sure, we can do minor changes and we can test all we want, but if it involves touching 2000 computers then it's a summer-time only project. Thus, I think we will spend the 2007-2008 school year testing Vista...learning how to best use Vista's capabilities...but won't deploy Vista on a grand scale until our next notebook lease.

On a personal level...well...it would be easier to answer if I could "touch" it. I know I already need Ultimate and with a Child(TM), I need control over what she can and - more importantly - cannot do. Between UAC and the Parental Controls, I think I'm set.

In my opinion, UAC is just something we all need to learn to work with. The day of running as an Administrator are rapidly coming to a close. Most people running a Linux distro (I think Linspire runs most users as a root-equivalent) or OS X already deal with something like UAC yet they get the job done. This is something Windows users can love too.

re: Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) - love it?

Thomas Lee — Sun, 21 May 2006 18:50:23 GMT

I love the concept, just hate the implementation. As explained on my blog, on my two dev boxes I've turned it off and will be unlikely to turn it back on till we get a less obtrusive implementation.

re: Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC) - love it?

Keith Combs — Sun, 21 May 2006 19:00:07 GMT

Yea, for a developer box, it's probably overkill. However, I think you all should install Beta 2 and run with default settings for a week or so and provide feedback.

Beta 2 is getting closer so you'll be able to get your hands on it soon.