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sudo and uac both contain a ‘u’; coincidence?

May 1st, 2007 · No Comments

This is a pretty bold statement from Microsoft’s Peter Watson. He claims that other operating system developers should learn from Vista’s UAC component and provide something similar. Hasn’t UNIX had the su command (and later sudo) for a long while? Hell, even Mac OS X and Linux distros like Ubuntu wrapped it [...]

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Tags: UAC · Vista · Windows · sudo

vista blahs

January 30th, 2007 · 6 Comments

Windows Vista was released at midnight today. Woohoo?
I played with Vista while it was in beta. I liked it and thought that Microsoft added a few nifty things. However, I was bummed that WinFS was dropped from the feature list. A few other planned features were canned as well so [...]

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Tags: Vista · Windows