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Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:00 AM

Safeguarding Windows 7 – Parental Controls

As you can imagine, our team is quite busy working through this next phase of Windows 7. We definitely appreciate the millions of downloads and installs of the Windows 7 RC. Things are going as we expect at this point. On a personal note, I wanted to
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Monday, April 27, 2009 12:00 AM

Improvements to AutoPlay

As mentioned before on this blog (regarding our UAC changes ) and on the IE blog (regarding the SmartScreen® filter for malware ), we have an increased focus to enable customers to be in control and feel confident about the software that they choose to
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Thursday, February 05, 2009 3:00 PM

UAC Feedback and Follow-Up

When we started the “E7” blog we were both excited and also a bit uneasy. The excitement is obvious. The unease is because at some point we knew we would mess up. We weren’t sure if we would mess up because we were blogging about a poorly designed feature
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Thursday, February 05, 2009 12:00 AM

Update on UAC

Hi, Jon DeVaan here to talk to you about the recent UAC feedback we’ve been receiving. Most of our work finishing Windows 7 is focused on responding to feedback. The UAC feedback is interesting on a few dimensions of engineering decision making process.
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Thursday, January 15, 2009 12:00 AM

User Account Control (UAC) – quick update

There’s been a ton of interest in how we have improved user account control (UAC) and so we thought we’d offer a quick update for folks. We know most of you have discovered this and picked a setting that works for you, and we're happy with the feedback
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 12:00 PM

User Account Control

We promised that this blog would provide a view of Engineering Windows 7 and that means that we would cover the full range of topics—from performance to user interface, technical and non-technical topics, and of course easy topics and controversial topics.
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