Vista - Windows Vista is pure horror

the wharf rat wrote:From what I can see and I use MS Office 2007 on this Vista machine, no
parts of it requests privileged escalation to run with full admin
rights. Any user with Standard rights can run the solution under those
rights.

Is that what you mean?

In article <OmBvPH0IJHA.4600@xxxxxx>,
Paul Montgumdrop <Paul@xxxxxx> wrote:AFAIK you can't install Office 2003 or earlier as an unprivileged
user. Why didnt' MS force those developers to write code that meets
your standards?

the wharf rat wrote:WTH are you talking about my standards you moron. I am not MS or is that
too hard for you to comprehend? And why should MS go back to make
changes to old solutions when they did just that with Office 2007?

Where is the money to be made in doing that from a MS's standpoint?

the wharf rat wrote:One other thing here, why would MS let any non user admin install
software on the system? You give me a good reason as to why any non
user/admin should have the rights to install software when those rights
can be applied to malware being installed on the machine, because it is
a non-privilege non-admin user that the malware in installing under the
permissions context of the account.

Can one even do it on Linux?

You're blowing smoke here as far as I am concerned.

In article <#GVFUq3IJHA.1304@xxxxxx>,
Paul Montgumdrop <Paul@xxxxxx> wrote:Why shouldn't they? Isn't it true by definition that without
privileges the user should not be able to cause damage?

It's true that in very high security environments installation
of software is disallowed, but for typical and especially home usage I
don't see why special rights should be needed.

People just love to troll around quoting articles that cater to XP users and egg on a response from Vista users. Choose your OS and be happy. I'm a long time Vista user and it works great for me. Some people need to get a life!