Microsoft Exec: UAC Designed To ‘Annoy Users’

"In a Thursday presentation at RSA 2008 in San Francisco, David Cross, a product unit manager at Microsoft who was part of the team that developed UAC, admitted that Microsoft’s strategy with UAC was to irritate users and ISVs in order to get them to change their behavior."

http://pengwin.homelinux.org/2008/04/microsoft-exec-uac-designed-to-annoy-users/