Ahh, VMS.. :-)
And van, I couldn't agree more. My post above details why I use a PC for some things and why an Apple would be better for others. That, however, is precisely why I find the Apple vs PC commercials insulting. It's praying on the idea that that one is actually inferior, rather than designed for a certain purpose.
Unix (and consequently MacOS) is designed specifically to be a multi-user system and acts as such. Windows was never designed as a server OS (don't get me started on NT) and therefore caters much more to a single user.
And the Vista UAC commercial? Garbage. There's tons of settings to change this, without ugly registry hacks or other manipulations. If you're consistently seeing the warning with a specific program, just mark the program to run as Admin!
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To mark an application to always run elevated
1. Right-click an application that is not likely to have been assigned an administrative token, such as a word processing application.
2. Click Properties, and then select the Compatibility tab.
3. Under Privilege Level, select Run this program as an administrator, and then click OK.
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