The introduction of the User Account Control feature in Windows Vista was a controversial move that backfired quite a bit on Microsoft. Not necessarily because it was a bad feature but because many users felt that it was annoying the hell out of them. Most experts agree that UAC is increasing a computer system’s security which is obviously a good thing. They do also agree on the fact that Microsoft should have made some changes to the way UAC behaves in Windows Vista to make it less annoying.
Enter Windows 7. Microsoft made changes to the way the User Account Control in Windows 7 behaves which should reduce the frustration that some users felt in Windows Vista. Microsoft employees have posted about UAC various times on the Engineering Windows 7 blog, check out the links below for an overview:
- Ben Fathi – User Account Control
- Unknown – User Account Control (UAC) – quick update
- John DeVaan – Update on UAC
- John DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky – UAC Feedback and Follow-Up
The last Microsoft employee to have his say about UAC is Mark Russinovich who wrote the article Inside Windows 7 User Account Control for the Technet Magazine which looks at UAC in Windows 7 from a more technical point of view.
