Windows 7: Microsoft will review the mechanism UAC

After a controversy that erupted last week, the editor modifies the operation of his unit of data protection. Microsoft has decided to revise the mechanism for the protection of data included in the operating system Microsoft Windows Vista and incorporated into the new OS.

According to Microsoft France,  two changes will be effective on this module with Release Candidate 1 of Windows 7″ result of customer feedback about the new operation of ‘UAC with the beta”.  Bernard Ourghanlian, Chief Technology and Security at Microsoft France, added that, firstly, the control panel UAC “run in a high level of integrity and will therefore require elevated privileges. This will ensure that all operations around the use of SendKeys [provides methods to send keystrokes to an application, source MSDN] and equivalent to work. “Second, “the change in the level of UAC require explicit consent.

The information had been provided on the blog of the Windows 7 engineering Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan, the two project managers who oversee the development of Windows 7.