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Comment Administrator Accounts (Score 1) 543

Through windows XP Microsoft has opted to allow the default installed user account root access. This has allowed a lot of security threats to mitigate because when a user executes any code on windows that code has free rein on the entire system with admin permissions. In the future does Microsoft plan to move away from having the typical user log in as administrator and allow facilities for that to be a viable option? For example, will future windows OS's prompt for temporary admin access when needed, etc.

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