Is Vista security too inconvenient?
Laurie’s Law of Constrained Convenience says that the time it takes to do anything on a computer is inversely related to the security measures being applied. Paul Murphy at ZDNet writes that Vista’s new security features are going to upset a lot of people. He thinks that the IT staff at many businesses are just going to turn Vista security measures off.
In the middle term, of course, we can expect both Microsoft and third party methods of balancing sensible security with minimal access pain to become available - and in the long run I expect Microsoft to adopt the basic Unix security model for their next OS. But it’s the short term that’s at issue here, and in the short term I think dangerous accommodations to user anger will just have to be made - simply because there’s little else your average Windows administrator, or Microsoft either, can do.
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