[cap-talk] Connection between UAC and Multics proposal

[Norman Hardy]

On Mar 1, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Pierre THIERRY wrote:

> Scribit Norman Hardy dies 01/03/2007 hora 09:34:
>> I wrote to Fred Spiessens and included the following paragraph. Just
>> now it occurs to me that the new Windows UAC makes the error that
>> Multics avoided (as described below).
>
> What will UAC do? I tried to read about it on MS Technet, but I  
> only got
> some huge marketing crap telling me how better the world will be with
> UAC...
I confess that I don't use Windows, but I gather that UAC is 'user  
access control' whereby pop up boxes ask permission from the user for  
some application to do something that might be contrary to a user's  
wishes.
That interpretation is compatible with what I have seen on this list  
and what Google tells me.