Surprise, Surprise. Microsoft Software Was Designed to Annoy Us!

Link: Microsoft: Vista feature designed to 'annoy users' | Tech News on ZDNet. There must be something in the water. First, we had the AT&T guy who is running around saying the Internet sky is falling. Now, a Microsoft manager has admitted that one of the most annoying things about Vista, user account control (UAC), was DESIGNED to annoy users. Excuse me? Rather than design the OS to be secure, Microsoft prefers to annoy its users to death. Microsoft clearly underestimated the intelligence of computer users, as the lack of sales and conversions to Vista would seem to indicate. However, it is the arrogance of the software developer that frosts me. I thought Apple had the patent on annoying users with its proprietary closed systems. Can anyone say open source, or Ubuntu Linux?