Windows Vista User Account Protection (UAP)

You might have already heard that Microsoft is including a feature called "User Account Protection" (UAP) into their forth-coming operating system version, Windows Vista.

The idea of UAP is to help users run their application with low-privilege user rights, and only elevate their rights to higher level when needed. The point of this is to keep security at a high level at all times.

Current Windows versions have a problem in the regard, since many operations are only available to administrators. However, especially in home and small office use, it is pain to log in with administrator rights (even with the Run As feature) just to get something done.

This is something Vista tries to make better, and I believe there are good grounds for this. But naturally, help is needed from software developers. MSDN has a great article available about UAP, which I can recommend.