I have found most of the "Get a Mac" ads on television irritating and misleading, but two of the most recent ones were spot on: the one where the PC, played by the author and comedian John Hodgman, ...

Microsoft published a video on Vista's controversial User Account Control (UAC) feature. Warning: Contains acronyms, depictions of violence against desktop icons. Microsoft has countered the rising ...

A key security feature of Windows Vista, User Account Control (UAC), is still nearly unusable, Symantec has said. At a press presentation last week, Symantec Vice President of Engineering Rowan ...

Bowing to criticism, Microsoft Corp. plans to modify a key new security feature in its upcoming Windows Vista operating system to make it less cumbersome for users. The current implementation of the ...

One of the most hated features of Windows Vista -- User Account Control pop-up messages -- will be seen a lot less frequently in Windows 7 than it was in Vista, a Microsoft executive promised last ...