alt Hacker NewsDidn’t Microsoft pioneer the privilege escalation prompts in Vista in 2007? It was a joke at the time how little things would hijack the entire screen to allow seemingly mundane things. I didn’t ever use Vista personally or professionally, but macOS has become pretty bad with basically the same model.
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kilpikaarna • today at 7:59 AM
It was a joke mainly because of badly designed Windows apps being used to running as root in XP and earlier would ask for permissions _all_the_time_.
KennyBlanken • today at 5:33 AM
MacOS X prompted users for their passwords in 2001.
Microsoft's implementation was (twenty years later still is) a joke because it prompted users to hit enter or click a button.
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IMHO, both are a mode of progressively penalizing developers as a mode of API obsoletion. It doesn't feel like the opportunity to fix a degradation of user experience really motivated app developers in either case.
The difference is Apple is much more likely to progressively make these legacy feature compatibility more difficult for users to configure over time, and to remove them eventually.