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Gaming with Least-Privileged User Accounts

This article describes how games developers can author Microsoft Windows games that work well with least-privileged user accounts (also known as limited-user accounts). http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/directx9_c/directx/technicalarticles/leastpriviledged.asp

Redmond Magazine: "Windows Vista Beta Gives IT a Good View"

This is a September article from Redmond Magazine that features Windows Vista Beta 1. Highlights include sections on deployment, management, and security. http://redmondmag.com/reports/article.asp?EditorialsID=179

PC Magazine: Windows Vista Beta 1 Slideshow

PC Magazine's slideshow of Vista Beta 1 features and UI. http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=&s=400&a=159919&po=8,00.asp

PC Magazine article: "Windows Security: This Time for Sure!"

This PC Magazine ( http://www.pcmag.com ) review of User Account Control in Windows Vista Beta 1 includes a high-level overview of the UAC components. It also features screenshots of the UAC user interface (UI). http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1840707,00.as

Windows Vista Beta 1 UAP documentation

The following two documents apply to UAP in Windows Vista Beta 1: Getting Started with User Account Protection on Windows Vista Beta 1: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/evaluate/feat/uaprot.mspx Developer Best Practices and Guidelines for

National Public Radio reviews Windows Vista and UAC

Steve Inskeep speaks with New York Times columnist David Pogue about Windows Vista Beta 1 and its new features, including User Account Control. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4952413

Why User Account Control (UAC)?

Running as an administrator today can be very costly. When you run as an administrator, every application that you launch can potentially use your account’s privileges to write to system files and the registry and to modify system-wide data. Common tasks

Welcome to the User Account Control Weblog

Hi, and welcome to our team User Account Control (UAC) blog. We will use this space to keep you updated on our development, inform you about how our feature works, and to answer your questions (hopefully!). UAC is the name for a core security feature