tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8114648.post111318404112958601..comments2007-02-17T11:05:43.219-08:00Travishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03941801658095627535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8114648.post-1113236032254365482005-04-11T09:13:00.000-07:002005-04-11T09:13:00.000-07:002005-04-11T09:13:00.000-07:00This entire post makes me think that someone like you must be in charge of user accounts on the windows development team. <BR/><BR/>Without getting into it too much: there is no worldly reason for development tools to have to run as admin ... none! <BR/><BR/>The reason for it in windows is that none of you MS guys paid any attention in your software engineering classes and tightly coupled OS functionality with development candy in a shoddy way. Because of this, in order to do any kind of reasonably advanced development in windows you have to make a bunch of under the covers OS calls, which in turn requires (and rightfully so) admin access.<BR/><BR/>Undoing this without completely breaking years of functionality is not a trivial problem … I don’t envy the people that has to solve it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8114648.post-1113235609627166262005-04-11T09:06:00.000-07:002005-04-11T09:06:00.000-07:002005-04-11T09:06:00.000-07:00"There is a lot of development that you just can't do without an administrative account..."<BR/><BR/>oh that's a ringing endorsement of development on Windows.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com