Re: XP/Home Security issues

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 06/08/02 

From: "Roger Abell" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 00:57:32 -0700

Just as a little background on this. It is the OS that has imposed
new (and, I would add, improved) requirements on how software
needs to behave. This has lead to software from companies that
are content to remain with older (and, I would add, sloppier)
code designs behaving in these ways - requiring admin, etc..

Now, it is we in the NT technical community that pushed MS into
this, back in mid-beta W2k time. MS was already looking for ways
(I would presume) to nudge software developers to "think beyond
DOS", and from the corporate sphere we nearly demanded that MS
do something, indicating the anarchy of app install assumptions was
not supportable in scale. W2k moved partway to what we requested,
and XP has moved father toward it. The effective result has been
a slowly growing awareness among the software vendors that we
really do place importance in our buying decision on whether or
not their applications have met full Windows certification (note:
compliance is something different).

So, let your software vendors know. 

--
Roger Abell
MVP (Windows Platform)  Associate Expert
The Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
"Mike Brannigan [MS]" <mikebran@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ecNKxxlDCHA.2444@tkmsftngp05...
> These issues are related to the software, not the operating system.  You
> should direct as much consumer pressure as possible in the direction of
the
> developers and publishers of this software to get it to run under normal
> controlled user accounts.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Mike
> --
> Mike Brannigan [MS]
>
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> "Shel" <ltshell@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:c1cf01c20e59$85651e30$9ae62ecf@tkmsftngxa02...
> > AMEN!  Many of my kids' educational software programs can
> > only be run from the administrator mode.  In order to use
> > them, the boys have to be closely monitored because they
> > will get into system files.  Oh, the headaches that has
> > caused.  My other compouter has ME and we have to restore
> > the system frequently because of corrupted of files.
> >
> > In my opinion, XP is a waste of time and space until this
> > is addressed.  I had a program by Edmark called Kiddesk
> > that allowed me to limit access to the system and set
> > time limits for internet usage. I thought XP would give
> > me the same ability.
> >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >Many games can only be run in administrator mode. What
> > is
> > >being done to correct this? Security is useless (ans so
> > >is XP/Home) if I have to give everyone Administrator
> > >access to run their programs.
> > >.
> > >
>
>