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Originally Posted by NickFitz
You can turn all this off, if you wish, but then you lose all the security improvements over XP SP2, so there seems little point having the new OS. Furthermore, if you turn UAC off and install software, that software may not work if you later re-enable UAC, or may not work for other users.
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I feel a bit sorry for MS in some ways, as having been giving a good kicking about security in their OS's they then get another good kicking for doing something about security in their OS. To be fair, the issues with UAC are really down to the software rather than the OS (and I plead guilty to causing a few), but when you see an established application no longer work when you change OS you're bound to blame the OS.
Still in compatiblity terms, far more XP apps work correctly under Vista than work correctly under Linux.
As I said before, I certainly wouldn't upgrade an existing system to Vista, but if a new PC came with Vista (my new laptop has), I wouldn't be put off. The only problem I've had with it is being unable to install the XP embedded toolkit, which is a bit specialist.