Originally Posted By: wfaulk
Windows users are irritated when they have to deal with privilege separation, and Microsoft kowtowed to them by scaling back UAC significantly under Windows 7. That said, if they hadn't, people would have just turned UAC off. (In fact, they did, and they still do.)

Yep. And I'm one of 'em. Turned the damned thing off, as soon as I could. And I'm a veteran Linux user who quite happily uses a non-privileged account, reserving sudo usage for the appropriate tasks.

But, in fairness, I know I can do so safely, because I run Win7 in a virtual machine, and only for testing purposes. No email, no web-surfing, etc. Heck... I don't even have it connected up to our domain.