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So I guess the big news of the day was that Microsoft shipped the first beta of Windows Vista. After a full day of reading reviews and looking at screenshots I was starting to confused about what I was actually looking at.

Hmmm…this sounds a little familiar:

“Instead of a Documents and Settings folder in the root of the system drive, you’ll see a Users folder. And inside of that folder, you’ll see folders for individual users (Paul and Administrator, for example) and a UNIX-like folder called Public (Figure).”

I think I have mentioned Windows new Least Privledged Users Account before but here it is again:

“…there are two issues with doing so in Windows. First, Windows wasn’t architected to accommodate this type of security…When you enable UAP (and logoff and logon again), you’ll be presented with a Windows Security dialog (Figure) any time you try to do something dangerous. The sheer number of actions that trigger this dialog, however, is alarming.”

People just will not stand for having to put in a password to do administrative tasks like installing software…or so they used to say about running Linux. (good thing this “feature” is turned off by default…we wouldn’t want to have too many secure Windows computers out there….)

But then I read further and everything was cleared up:

“Product Activation is still present in Windows Vista Beta 1″

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