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Microsoft: All operating systems should use Vista's UAC |
 Microsoft
Australia has defended the company's User Account Control (UAC) system
as being "misunderstood" and said it should be the type of technology
that all operating systems aspire towards.
"There has been a lot
of misunderstanding in the market around User Account Control (UAC). If
you look at it from an architectural direction User Account Control is
a great idea and strategically a direction that all operating systems
and all technologies should be heading down," Peter Watson, Microsoft
Australia's chief security advisor said.
UAC is a security
feature introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. The
aim is to provide increased security when using Windows as a standard
user by informing them when possible security breaches could be
undertaken. The technology has been a source of irritation for Vista
users, with Apple going as far as to make fun of UAC in a recent
commercial.
As Vista and the latest edition of Office were
developed with Microsoft's Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL), "the
number of exploits has been extremely low", he added.
 News source: Builder AU
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