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1. Comment - Vista's image problem personified

   (Aug 22, 2008 - 4:52 PM)

   The mojave experiment was such a joke. There was no control and all the users were shown were videos. Instead of admitting that Vista is unstable and has half the performance of Windows XP, they launch misleading ad campaigns.

2. Comment - Facebook's global growth catapults it to #1 worldwide

   (Aug 14, 2008 - 11:12 PM)

   The Myspace interface/layout is such a joke. It breaks every principle of usability design.

3. Comment - Is Microsoft's Mojave Vista experiment backfiring with users?

   (Aug 11, 2008 - 8:37 AM)

   The majority of users do not do not respond to UAC prompts or most Yes/No security prompts properly. It really comes down to cost-benefit analysis. There are many other simple security measures that could be implemented into the Windows OS by default which would be significantly more effective and rarely require user intervention.
   
   UAC cannot be relied on for security due to it's significant amount of warnings and various methods of bypassing it which have been disclosed publicly months ago. The concept of UAC is very good and could work but due to poor implementation UAC is not effectively used in the majority of cases at locking programs that access certain parts of the system. You can look at the statistics for hundreds of thousands of Windows Vista user getting infected with malicious code as proof of that.
   
   UAC was primarily designed to annoy users to force software developers to make changes to how their programs run.
   
   "At the RSA 2008 confab in San Francisco, Microsoft admitted that UAC was designed, in fact, to annoy. Microsoft's David Cross came out and said so: "The reason we put UAC into the platform was to annoy users. I'm serious," said Cross."
   
   Source: http://arstechnica.com/n...igned-to-annoy-you.html

4. Comment - Is Microsoft's Mojave Vista experiment backfiring with users?

   (Aug 5, 2008 - 3:59 PM)

   PC_Tool, I do this for a living. UAC doesn't improve security for the same reason that the firewall traffic alerts that Zone Alarm used to display by default doesn't improve security.
   
   UAC has a very high false positive rate and it's very easy to use numerous tactics such as process injection to bypass it. The average user gets so annoyed by it they either turn the feature off or click Yes without thinking.... Back to square one.

5. Comment - Is Microsoft's Mojave Vista experiment backfiring with users?

   (Aug 2, 2008 - 3:45 PM)

   UAC doesn't improve security. That's a fact.
   
   Regarding the actual article, to make a brief analogy, this same Mojave experiment could have been done with Windows 95 and gotten very similar results.