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Microsoft admits Vista UAC is designed to annoy users

April 12th, 2008 · Comments Off · Macintosh

Just as I suspected, a Microsoft executive admitted that Vista’s UAC (User Account Control) is designed to annoy users.
In a Thursday presentation at RSA 2008 in San Francisco, David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft who was part of the team that developed UAC, admitted that Microsoft’s strategy with UAC was to irritate users [...]

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“Free Public WiFi”

January 29th, 2008 · Comments Off · General

Did you ever wonder what those “Free Public WiFi” adhoc networks you see almost every place people use laptops? David Pogue explains it. A stupid Windows bug that acts like a virus but it really isn’t a virus.
The original article goes into more detail:
If a laptop connects to an ad-hoc network it can later start
beaconing [...]

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