Professionally, I've run as a standard user for a decade, and had mastered all the little tips and tricks to administering an enterprise using nothing but runas. Now in trots UAC, and while it makes some situations easier... For the most part all this thing does it get in my way.
I'm an Administrator, Outlook is the only process running on my pc that doesn't need elevated credentials! Yet I spend all day not only accepting prompts, but entering my password 200+ times a day. I believe in the REAL security UAC provides my environment, but the password over and over... it's maddening.
My question is this, with UAC forcing us to run a standard user is it safe? Can we go back to the NT days. Would you trust UAC enough to just log in with your admin account? Does UAC do enough to protect your Domain credentials?
Update: Put another way do we place UAC on the same level as sudo? Yes there will be bugs, but can we start to reorganize how we do business around this feature, or is this to protect my mom(not ready for primetime)?