Anyone buying Vista when it comes out?

[Warrior]

I'm also very happy to see the rigorous enforcement of user account control. On occasion it does get annoying (for instance, today I had to execute an IIS command, but forgot to open the command prompt with administrator privileges). But overall, that is a great security feature. And what it really means is, it's no longer Microsoft's fault if you install bad software on your machine. It's yours. Because they warned you, and you explicitly authorized it.

In theory, I like the ideas behind this elevation and the associated protections. In practice, I find it somewhat lacking. It's very disruptive to have the entire screen black out when Vista decides it needs to prompt for confirmation. This would be good when you are being prompted to enter your password (to make it more obvious that you are being prompted by Windows Vista, as opposed to some unprivileged application trying to deceive you), but it's just annoying when the dialog is just an "OK"/"Deny" dialog. Am I missing some reason why the disruptive UI is needed even for yes/no queries? I would think that a topmost centered window would be good enough.

I think it was added because Microsoft feared that people would make a "false" UAC dialog for whatever reason. Anyhow, there is a guide online to make UAC not black out the screen.

UAC offers a good degree of granularity with managing users, it's just not directly exposed to the User.