Christof Wollenhaupt wrote: >> What I find amazing Stephen is there has been very little said in this > thread about what people think about Vista (good or bad). > > What's really good about Vista is how it handles security. > > It's so much easier now that you can run a program and get prompted for the > Administrator credentials instead of having to set up a bunch of short cuts > with "Run with different credentials" checked. No need for a special Admin > Explorer anymore. No hunting for the settings to run Explorer multiple > times. No more remembering to use shift+right click (the keyboard shortcut > doesn't work on my Dell). And best of all: To install a program from the > network I can simply execute the setup instead of copying the file locally > or connecting to the same server again as a different user. No, best of all > is that you can now double click the clock in the taskbar and get a calender > instead of an error message.
It seems like Microsoft is finally understanding how to balance security and usability. This feature has been central to both the Mac OS X and Ubuntu Linux experience for about 8 and 5 years, respectively. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
