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This guy must own a Bot-Net

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Alex St. John in his infinite wisdom has proclaimed that Windows Vista will see the Windows online gaming market end in an apocalyptic end. Citing Microsoft’s Evil UAC & the new Game Explorer as the main culprit in an article “Vista Casts A Pall On PC Gaming“.

Alex, if you ever end up reading this I suggest that you actually use a copy of VISTA before posting any more propaganda about it. For years software developers have been lazy; writing programs that create errors when they are not run as an Administrator. I suggest you being one of them, have a good look at SysInternals, they provide a large number of free tools that let you view access to windows and debug why your applications do not work properly.

By default, Parental controls are not turned on so I don’t see why you should complain about this stopping most users from running your games. UAC is turned on but can be easily turned off with a single tick box & reboot. A better idea would be for you to put the ‘My application is crap and needs to run as an adminstrator‘ flag in all your games and windows will automatically ask once for approval to run the program, and then the only problems will be the ones with your coding. And while we are on that topic, if you write your web sites properly and digitally sign your code, IE will happily download the files without error messages and warnings.

I’m not a parent (yet) but when I am, I will definitely want to know what my kids are doing with their computer. There is so much Pornography, Spy ware, Viruses, Paedophiles out on the internet, I like the idea of having to approve the programs my children run. They ask, I check and approve. It’s a great idea.

The only people I can see that will have a problem with the new systems implemented will be those ones that run Bot-Nets, Ad-ware & Spy ware networks. Of course, if this was your real aim and the ‘Games’ are just a front your comments make perfect sense.

The days of all users running with administrator privileges are gone. I wish you the all the best in learning how to code in this every changing world.