But if they’re trying to “teach us” something, isn’t it a bad strategery to have the annoyance be greater when the system is more secure? Turn off UAC and the system is supposedly less secure and less annoying at the same time. Sounds like they’re not teaching what they set out to.
Yep, I agree.
Nobody is accusing Microsoft of being overly smart about Vista. They've not only shot their foot off, they've worked their way up to the knee with a machete, and are apparently planning to poke their own eyes out by killing XP on all but trivial machines like Eee-PC.
So did they step on their own d!cks with UAC? You betcha.