Not terribly fair. When Windows decided running everything as administrator was bad and to add a visual sudo-like prompt, Apple made fun of them for it, but it was Microsoft reacting to a changing threat landscape then too.

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klodolph 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Vista gets maligned but UAC is a good feature to have around, and Vista introduced it.

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Semaphor 12 hours ago | parent [-]

My first thought was "But back then those prompts were constant, making them almost useless", though maybe that did actually help by making software vendors rely less on admin rights?

	▲	pjmlp 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That was the whole point.

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charcircuit 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

UAC is not a security boundary. Malware can bypass it if it wants.

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pjmlp 12 hours ago | parent [-]

It helps to actually enable having to type a password instead of clicking on Yes.

However yes, security is much more than an UAC dialog.

	▲	pjmlp 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Additionally, just remembered, recently there is an additional option on Windows 11 that the UAC generates a temporary admin user and then throws the security token away. https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2025/05/19/enhanc...