But they made the big security push by SP1 - and they were telling us all to stop running as admin by then. Then they had SP2, long before Vista was out, and they told us not to run as admin. BUT THEY ALL STILL DEFAULT TO NEW USERS AS ADMIN.
Only that first wave, new users made once the install is done default to power users. It’s MS, they blow it sometimes, they blow it a lot. Probably somebody just forgot about that screen in the install. I’m in QA that kind of thing happens, we make some change in how one section is going to work, but of course like any complex app (we have server, thick client, web client plus a couple dozen connector to 3rd party apps) many of our “one section” things can be accessed in a bunch of different place, we think we changed them all, we ship, 2 weeks later some tech support guy comes over and says “how come the UI for blah blah blah is so different in the web client than the thick”, and I’m stuck with “oh s#!+ the web client” for my only answer.
In the end we’re still only human.