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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...