# Vista Feature Designed To 'Annoy Users'

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vista-feature-designed-to-annoy-users/445282>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 14, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vista-feature-designed-to-annoy-users/445282 "2008-04-14T13:18:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vista-feature-designed-to-annoy-users/445282/1 "2008-04-14T13:18:16Z")

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Microsoft shows its security consciousness and determination to solve the problem. Or at least, its determination to make somebody solve the problem:

[Vista Feature Designed To ‘Annoy Users’](http://news.zdnet.com/2424-3515_22-197089.html)

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> A Microsoft manager has said that one of the security features in Vista was deliberately designed to “annoy users” to put pressure on third-party software makers to make their applications more secure.
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> David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft, was the group program manager in charge of designing User Account Control (UAC), which, when activated, requires people to run Vista in standard user mode rather than having administrator privileges, and offers a prompt if they try to install a program.
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> “The reason we put UAC into the (Vista) platform was to annoy users – I’m serious,” said Cross, speaking at the RSA Conference here Thursday… Cross claimed that annoying users had been part of a Microsoft strategy to force independent software vendors (ISVs) to make their code more secure, as insecure code would trigger a prompt, discouraging users from executing the code…

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**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vista-feature-designed-to-annoy-users/445282/2 "2008-04-14T13:28:53Z")

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Wow, ZDNet knows how to spin a story to get tons of posts on digg, don’t they?