[Update May 5, 2006 1:35pm PDT: A portion of this post was accidentally deleted on May 4 due to a production error. The text has now been restored and can be seen ...

In early June, Computerworld published the story, “Visual Tour: 20 Things You Won’t Like About Windows Vista.” At the bottom of page 5 of that story, I wrote that the built-in Administrator account is ...

If you have ever used a personal firewall application such as ZoneAlarm, you are probably familiar with seeing cryptic alert messages pop up on your screen. Essentially, any time a new or unknown ...

I have found most of the "Get a Mac" ads on television irritating and misleading, but two of the most recent ones were spot on: the one where the PC, played by the author and comedian John Hodgman, ...

Last week Ars reported that Symantec was starting to look at Windows Vista in terms of security. The major focus of the company's investigation was Vista's network stack, and it reported that the ...

Q:Vista is driving me batty. I am the only person who uses my computer, but I get repeated screen messages warning that administrator approval is required for the simplest tasks. Is there any way of ...

The truth is out! Windows Vista’s User Account Control makes you want to put your computer through a wall because that’s what Microsoft wanted. David Cross, a product manager who designed UAC (sadly, ...

Microsoft has countered the rising chorus of whining about its planned User Account Control (UAC) feature in Vista with a new video that shows the new limited accounts in action. Ok, Ok. It's not ...

Fast user switching is a feature in Windows that allows you to switch to another user account on the same computer without logging off. This allows multiple users to use the same computer while ...

A Microsoft security expert asserts Windows 7 is every bit a secure as Unix Despite being widely derided (even by Microsoft executives), the Vista OS was instrumental in finally bringing to the world ...

A few months ago, I wrote about User Account Control (UAC), a controversial new feature slated for inclusion in Windows Vista. Here’s what I had to say last December: The theory behind UAC is sound: ...