I have found most of the "Get a Mac" ads on television irritating and misleading, but two of the most recent ones were spot on: the one where the PC, played by the author and comedian John Hodgman, ...

A key security feature of Windows Vista, User Account Control (UAC), is still nearly unusable, Symantec has said. At a press presentation last week, Symantec Vice President of Engineering Rowan ...

Bowing to criticism, Microsoft Corp. plans to modify a key new security feature in its upcoming Windows Vista operating system to make it less cumbersome for users. The current implementation of the ...

Microsoft published a video on Vista's controversial User Account Control (UAC) feature. Warning: Contains acronyms, depictions of violence against desktop icons. Microsoft has countered the rising ...

User Account Control is a significant Vista security feature that let’s users “elevate” access privileges for certain applications. Blogger Bink.nu writes: “However, I also encountered a number of ...

User Account Control, a Windows Vista security feature that has long been considered intrusive, will appear about one-third less often in Windows 7 than it does in Vista. “From our beta and internal ...

Microsoft's User Access Control (UAC) can be a powerful tool to protect systems from malicious software, but many people misunderstand what it can and cannot do. Knowing the power (and limitations) of ...