Come on. Now Windows Vista wants to grow up just like Linux or Mac OS X. Give me a break. The Windows Vista User Account Protection is the most unoriginal thing I’ve heard ever since I’ve gone the Unix/Linux path. Check out how User Account Protection is gonna make users around the world wish they had Windows 98 or Linux workstations for their work. Thanks Bruce Schneier !

Here’s the good news. In Windows Vista, Microsoft is indeed moving to this kind of security model. The feature is called User Account Protection (UAP) and, as you might expect, it prevents even administrative users from performing potentially dangerous tasks without first providing security credentials, thus ensuring that the user understands what they’re doing before making a critical mistake. It sounds like a good system. But this is Microsoft, we’re talking about here. They completely botched UAP.