Re: Does anyone truly use Restricted User Accounts?

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Andrew M. Saucci, Jr. wrote: 
        I think the problem today is that software developers don't have a
clue as to how their programs work. They just throw a bunch of toolkits
together and hope for the best. That's why they fall back on "full control."
Software developers are underpaid and overworked (probably in India or
China). Users will eventually demand that programs run with limited
privileges, though, as the mass media start to turn attention toward
computers.

Unfortunately, the only organisation with enough clout to do this is
Microsoft itself. It does have an interest in security, it keeps telling
us so. It surely can't be too hard to restrict the 'designed for
Windows' logo, or equivalent accolade, to software that works for
unprivileged users.

Not wishing to start a pissing contest here, but I have a foot in both
camps. There is not, and never has been, a Unix/Linux user application
which requires root privileges to run. Nobody would touch it with the
proverbial bargepole. We need to encourage that kind of attitude in the
Windows world also, instead of the very casual approach to unlimited
privilege which prevails.
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