Actually, this UAC was already present in Vista no?
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Jeff Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Sebastian > Sylvan<[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think it's morally right to run as user by default. Yes, the windows >> culture has some legacy that may, on occasion, make it slightly harder to >> use "well behaved" programs, but it's fairly minor these days. > > I strongly agree. Presently, on Windows 7, I have to right-click and > "Run As Administrator" and then approve the process via UAC to get > anything done under the default --global setting, in much the same way > I would have to launch a root terminal and provide my password within > GNOME (a la gksu) or other *nix environments (Windows doesn't have > anything like sudo, as far as I know). > > Since it works essentially the same as *nix does, as of Windows 7, I > see no reason for a different default. > > Jeff Wheeler > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
