Does Microsoft squander billions on R&D? Windows 7 UAC fix doesn't address UAC's fatal flaw

Microsoft Alert NetworkWorld.com | Software Research Center | Update Your Profile Sponsored by Dell The Art of Mobile Computing This podcast looks at how Dell's new Latitude notebooks and Windows Vista set the standard for the industry. This session reviews ways a Microsoft Windows Vista migration can meet and exceed your organization's deployment objectives. Spotlight Story This is Network World's Microsoft Subnet news alert in which we focus on the top items from Microsoft Subnet, your daily source for Microsoft news, blogs, discussion items, security alerts, giveaways and more. Top pick of the week Angry shareholders say Microsoft squanders billions on pointless R&D The second in our series on Microsoft shareholder activism, this post includes the views of one of the top Microsoft securities analysts, Brendan Barnicle from Pacific Crest Securities. (To summarize, "Yeah a lot of people are frustrated … the stock should have grown."). 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