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The issue addressed (but inaccurately explained) in the links is the level of system access allowed for applications in the Win32 APIs up to and including XP. It was, frankly, a horrendous design decision to allow software to run as administrator by default just like in the DOS days. The same article gives short shrift to the significance of UAC, i.e. restricting system access for user space processes per TCI standards. But acknowledging the significance of changes in Windows security since Vista would make Windows bashing much less fun.
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