Windows Vista User Experience

In what Microsoft calls the Windows Vista User Experience (UX), it is promoting easier-to-understand, friendlier messages throughout Windows Vista-in the event logs, error messages, and dialog boxes. There is also added detail in most instances, which will appeal to administrators. For example, many of the security User Interfaces (UI) showing a program filename will display the full folder path location to the executable. For security administrators, this makes it easier to track down and identify programs.

Although there are ways to defeat all of the new security programming mechanisms, it makes the job considerably more difficult for malware writers. This, in fact, was all Microsoft intended. One thing that is refreshing is that the core security team, at least, never lost sight of the reality that nothing is foolproof.