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The UAC security flaw in Vista

User Account Control (UAC) is one of the key security mechanisms introduced in Vista. In the past, the default account as an administrator. Following the principle of least privilege , the default Vista account runs with limited access, and Vista detects when something requires "administrator prompts...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-03-2007
Another ironic Mac commercial

We already know some of the ads in the Get-A-Mac campaign don't exactly make sense . The latest, "Counselor", seems particularly ironic to me. In the ad, the Mac says that the PC "is a wizard with numbers and dresses like a gentleman". The PC is able to say that the Mac is "better with creative stuff...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-19-2006
This Apple advertisement doesn't make any sense. Touche!

I love the new Get A Mac campaign . Very clever, and great casting. I'm willing to overlook some of the factual inaccuracies because, hey, this is advertising, right? One of the most recent ads ( mov ) doesn't make a lot of sense to me though. The ad in question is touting Boot Camp, OS X's ability to...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-19-2006

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