Vista UAC prompts unexpected, not intuitive: Microsoft Scott Charney, head of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division, admitted this week that Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC) prompts are not intuitive and confuse users.

Vista UAC prompts unexpected, not intuitive: Microsoft

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Vista UAC prompts unexpected, not intuitive: Microsoft
1:15 / May 22, 2008

Scott Charney, head of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing division, admitted this week that Windows Vista's User Account Control (UAC) prompts are not intuitive and confuse users.

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