Elliott C. Back: In Aere Aedificare

Windows Vista likes to play “Mother may I?” and ask you EVERY damn time it wants to do something if it’s allowed to, even for services that should be certified as its own:

Why should I have to approve its own activation component? Its rundll components? It’s hardware installation components? I believe in a more secure architecture, but really Microsoft, this is taking the security iniative a little too far. As a consumer, I just want it to run–security decisions should be made behind my back. Especially for operating system components. What does it say for your system when it doesn’t even trust itself?