Barence writes "Engineers working on Windows 7 have admitted Vista's User Account Control was too intrusive, and are promising to tone it down in the forthcoming Windows 7. "We've heard loud and clear that you are frustrated," says Microsoft engineer Ben Fathi. "You find the prompts too frequent, annoying, and confusing. We still want to provide you control over what changes can happen to your system, but we want to provide you a better overall experience." According to Fathi, when Vista first launched, 775,312 unique applications were producing prompts — so some may be annoyed that it won't be scrapped entirely, but at least Microsoft are listening. The comments echo those of Steve Ballmer, who admitted at a conference in London that "the biggest trade off we made was sacrificing security for compatibility. I'm not sure the end-users really appreciated that trade off." One other feature we know will be in Windows 7 is multi-touch technology, while a full wishlist of the top 61 features requested by users participating in Microsoft's Early Feedback program was leaked last year." Link to Original Source
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