We promised that this blog would provide a view of Engineering Windows 7 and that means that we would cover the full range of topics�from performance to user interface, technical and non-technical topics, and of course easy topics and controversial topics. This post is about User Account Control. Our author is Ben Fathi, vice president for core OS development. UAC is a feature that crosses many aspects of the Windows architecture�security, accounts, user interface, design, and so on�we had several other members of the team contribute to the post.

We continue to value the discussion that the posts seem to inspire�we are betting (not literally of course) that this post will bring out comments from even the most reserved of our readers. Let�s keep the comments constructive and on-topic for this one.

FWIW, the blogs.msdn.com server employs some throttles on comments that aim to reduce spam. We don�t control this and have all the �unmoderated� options checked. I can�t publish the spam protection rules since that sort of defeats the purpose (and I don�t know them). However, I apologize if your comment doesn�t make it through. --Steven