There is an article on eweek about Microsoft wanting to limit the rights that their employees have on their machines. I have been working day to day as a non-privileged user for over 2 years now. I know it definitely slows me down. I always seem to be shelling out to a command prompt that is logged in as an administrator but it has saved me from viruses.

I did have one issue with the article. It said that the machine would sometimes crash when you attempt to install something without administrator rights. I have never had a crash due to that. I have always gotten a prompt asking me to choose a login with rights or a simple messagebox telling me I didn't have the correct rights.

I am downloading the beta of Windows Vista now and I hope it is easier to run without administrator privileges. If nothing else I have read that Microsoft has implemented registry and file redirects to get around some of the problems that I see on XP.