| >Obviously this isn't something that could not be fixed in Windows, and maybe it already has been. There is nothing even remotely obvious about that statement. If it was anything near possible it wouldn't an ongoing problem, unsolved for the last 12 years, since the introduction of UAC in Windows Vista. Now I wouldn't say that Microsoft didn't progress. Far from it. Almost no one I knew kept Vista UAC enabled, as it was constant nag. Nowadays most folks can live with it, and corporations don't feel like they have to disable it and compromise their security to maintain their employees productive. But it is still annoying way to often for it's own good. Many people are just automatically allowing everything, just like they press Yes or OK on every dialog box without ever reading it. The reason it is so different on Windows is, in a nutshell, that Windows is a very different beast, and the way users and developers operate on it is not at all similar to what is done on Linux. The integration of Windows applications with the OS API is something that, for better and for worse, doesn't exist on Linux. Be it the GUI, the Settings storage (registry vs config files) or any other part of the system. |
