Microsoft Designed Vista's UAC to "Annoy Users"

[digitalhigh]

The truth comes out about User Account Control

Courtesy of Dailytech.com
Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system has been lambasted ever since it was launched for consumers in January 2007. Diehard Windows users balked at the steep system requirements, sometimes sluggish performance, inadequate driver support, and varying products SKUs at multiple price points.

One feature that has caused quite a bit of controversy with consumers has been the User Account Control (UAC) that is included in Windows Vista. UAC prompts nag users for simple operations such as going to device manager, emptying the recycle bin, or installing/uninstalling an application.
David Cross, a product manager responsible for designing UAC, gave the real reason for UAC at the RSA 2008 conference in San Francisco yesterday. "The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I'm serious," remarked Cross.

Cross added that Microsoft's unorthodox method to stop users from wreaking havoc with their systems and to stop software makers from making applications that delved too far into the Windows subsystem was a necessary move.

"We needed to change the ecosystem, and we needed a heavy hammer to do it," Cross added. Cross went on to say that although UAC may be seen as an annoyance to some, but its lasting implications are far more beneficial to Vista users. "Most users, on a daily basis, actually have zero UAC prompts."


Many would say that many users have zero UAC prompts on a daily basis because they have already disabled UAC -- not so says Microsoft. According to Cross, 88% of Vista users have UAC enabled and 66% of Windows sessions do not encounter UAC prompts.



So...in summation...Microsoft thinks that EVERYBODY is stupid, and should be treated as such. And here I thought I was the only person to find that damned popup to be wholly irritating.


I swear...if I didn't love my Xbox so much...



Bastards...

[Crackmatt]

You can control where it pops up and says are you sure about this?

[GooBacks]

I knew they designed it to annoy people...bastards.
So glad when I had vista it came with it pre-disabled lol

[ll V1oLeNT ll]

... damn thats cruel

[Jay]

Turning off UAC is the first thing I do after a reformat lol.

[digitalhigh]

I know you can turn it off...it's just the principle of the matter. My biggest problem with Vista is the lack of controllability you have over it, and this is proof of MS's intentional dumbing-down of their software. It's sad, and it's irritating.

[Crackmatt]

...how do you turn it off.

[Headshots 1125]

Quote: Originally Posted by Crackmatt

...how do you turn it off.

Google my son.
Disable User Account Control in Windows Vista
UAC is really a POS I disabled it once I got fed up with it ****ing popping up every 10 seconds.

[I Pieceman I]

It only lasted for 5-10 minutes before I disabled it.

[ForrrestMaster]

Thats why I never upgraded. Win XP FTW!

[Ibdc]

I've had more problems with XP than Vista. Whatever though, UAC prompts don't bother me very much anyways, and Microsoft designed it this way because a decent amount of Windows users are that stupid.

[JoeMal]

Thanks, Microsoft, for being really really ghey

[CodeytheRhino]

I turned it off the sec I bought my laptop. But like the article says, is still get warnings when a program tries to do something. I've decided that Vista=fail. That's my opinion so I don't expect to get flamed(by Jay)

[digitalhigh]

You're absolutely right CODEYTHERINO.

Vista, from what I understand, was rushed out the door by MS for the purpose of getting people to upgrade their hardware...even tho Vista sucks balls, and they know it. Why?

Because of the wonderful, wonderful Windows 7. My money is that W7 will be to Vista what XP is to Windows ME.