Interesting Post on Vista and UAC

This is an interesting post on UAC wherein people of about 12% has decided to disable the feature of Windows Vista, making it behave like Windows XP. Though there are risks associated with it and Microsoft is doing things to make Vista secure even if UAC is disabled. 12% may be small, but the amount of Windows Vista deployments make this number incredibly large.

In an excerpt:

We believe that per-user COM registration has value, but developers are certainly not going to use this approach if it will never work on some percentage of desktops, no matter how small that percentage is (currently hovering at around 12% – but on the scale of Windows that’s pretty huge). So we made that change. However, on machines with UAC enabled, we will help keep you more secure by continuing to prevent a standard user from injecting something into an elevated process using this mechanism.