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Today over at Channel9 my friend Chris Corio and UAC architect John Schwartz have an in depth look at User Account Control for Windows Vista. If you really want a good understainding of how this technology work then you should watch the entire video.

Anyone that has used Windows Vista at all will be familiar with User Account Control (UAC) prompts. The bulk of these you will see during initial setup of your machine, typically during installation of new software but occasionally during management of...

Microsoft early this morning released an early copy of Windows Vista 5381 to its Connect web site for beta testers. This build is the bulid they are driving towards Windows Vista Beta 2, as reported by a number of sites. This means that the build number...

One of the big concerns of anyone considering moving to Windows Vista is “How many of my applications will work on Windows Vista?” We have spent a lot of time trying to answer that very question for our company so I will share with you some of the common...

Lately in the newsgroups for the Windows Vista beta and a number of different online forums people are disabling one of the key pillars of Windows Vista’s increased security, UAC (User Account Control) formerly UAP (User Account Protection). This is really...