Microsoft Designed UAC to Annoy Users 571
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "At the 2008 RSA security conference, Microsoft's David Cross was quoted as saying, 'The reason we put UAC into the platform was 'to annoy users. I'm serious.' The logic behind this statement is that it should encourage application vendors to eliminate as many unnecessary privilege escalations as possible by causing users to complain about all the UAC 'Cancel or Allow' prompts. Of course, they probably didn't expect that Microsoft would instead get most of the complaints for training users to ignore meaningless security warnings."
oblig. (Score:5, Funny)
[Cancel] [Allow]
VISTA is awesome, real world story (Score:0, Funny)
At last - an MS Success! (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft and the United Aerospace Corporation (Score:4, Funny)
Frustration Detection patent (Score:4, Funny)
It does make sense, when you think about it, since they've found step 2 and patented a frustration detection system [slashdot.org].
I have to steal this comment from one of the posts from that story, but...
Step 1: Make frustration and annoying software
Step 2: Patent frustration detection system
Step 3: Profit.
Just a typo.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A difference so subtle, I nearly missed it (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Of course... (Score:5, Funny)
Let me fix this for you... (Score:5, Funny)
There. All better.
Re:A difference so subtle, I nearly missed it (Score:4, Funny)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_kGL3M5Cg&NR=1 [youtube.com]
Now that's funny
Well..... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A difference so subtle, I nearly missed it (Score:3, Funny)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4iyksLeo7w&feature=related [youtube.com]
End result (Score:3, Funny)
Re:you, my friend, made an incorrect assumption... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let me fix this for you... (Score:3, Funny)
Microsoft's David Cross (Score:4, Funny)
Re:you, my friend, made an incorrect assumption... (Score:4, Funny)
Why are you still using windows? (Score:1, Funny)
Microsoft designed Vista to annoy users (Score:3, Funny)
In fact, now I come to think of it, Microsoft designed all of Windows to annoy users. I use it and man, I'm annoyed as hell right now.
Re:you, my friend, made an incorrect assumption... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Of course... (Score:3, Funny)
sudo whoami
it's working! (Score:3, Funny)
For the next release, however, maybe Microsoft should be more straightforward and simply boot into a display that says "please go to www.ubuntu.com to upgrade your OS and applications".
Re:And Microsoft was the biggest offender. (Score:5, Funny)
Why in hell would anyone want to implement Windows "security" on Unix?
Microsoft Designed UAC to Annoy Users (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Microsoft designed Vista to annoy users (Score:3, Funny)
Should I really have to hit F5 to refresh my screen after I rename a bunch of files, or is that "annoyance" a feature that actually helps me as a user somehow? Have you ever tried to rename a file that is open? Move it? Is it really that hard to keep a desktop shortcut link after you rename the original file? Do I really have to sit through ten minutes of copying a file, only to have it cancel 80% through because the target disk doesn't have enough space (why didn't it check before it started)? What other device on the planet has a 99% success rate for the following trouble shooting procedure: "Reboot"? Why do special characters require the alt key then three or four random numbers from the keypad (not the number row, gasp!), when a simple alt key plus letter/number suffices for other operating systems?
Man, I could go on forever.
XBox (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, and once everybody declares Vista too difficult to use and administer, Microsoft will have an alternative [bfccomputing.com] for you.
Since I wrote that essay last year, Office Live [officelive.com] has become real(-ish).