Simon

Cumbria

IT

Not mentioned is the biggest reason of all not to upgrade !

At present, after something like 6 years of having what should be a good security model, there are still packages out there that will NOT run unless the user has admin rights. There are still packages that can't cope with a space in the path name. There are still packages that can't cope with the concept of a network.

Some of these are not obscure old packages from some 'mom&pop' outfit in the back of beyond - some of these problems I've seen in what should be 'professional' software from big names.

Come the day when Microsoft themselves run all their users as 'regular users' (even, or especially, when running MS apps) then I'll believe that their security model is approaching usability. Until then, it's something that looks nice, but disappoints when you get the glitzy wrapper off.

Oh yes, and just for good measure - useable means "will work with any file server", instead of screwing the user when connecting to third party servers.