They will run.
Programms following the XP usage rules have no problems.
This rules mean:
Don't execute anything else and try to remote it
Don't try to write to any folder else than the user folder
Quite simple.
If that does not fit you, spend 3min to create an admin account and work on that one, then you have similar rights and holes like XP.
But I normally prefer to work on user and give the apps the right to run under admin priviledges (UAC stuff, not hard but not what you are used from XP as user accs in XP are totally useless as "run as ..." is bugged badly).
That way I know that most worms and viruses can't do anything at all while my stuff works as intend.
And just to make sure: Apple behaves the same as that (as linux does as well). Admin operations only run on admin privilege level (sudo or su) not on user level. Its just that programmers for that two platforms are no godlike morrons and follow the security rules applied to the system while windows programmers do not even thought Microsoft tells them to do so for years now.
On OSX it just seems easier because the installers set that up correctly, which currently is not done for Vista because vista just is not out so the needed setup routines are not present.
PS: Mentioning MingW is highly unfair. Its not mingWs or Vistas fault that BM bases on a years old totally outdated MingW version instead of the current one.
Would be as if you enforced GCC 3.2 on Linux or XCode 1 on Apple ...
Programms following the XP usage rules have no problems.
This rules mean:
Don't execute anything else and try to remote it
Don't try to write to any folder else than the user folder
Quite simple.
If that does not fit you, spend 3min to create an admin account and work on that one, then you have similar rights and holes like XP.
But I normally prefer to work on user and give the apps the right to run under admin priviledges (UAC stuff, not hard but not what you are used from XP as user accs in XP are totally useless as "run as ..." is bugged badly).
That way I know that most worms and viruses can't do anything at all while my stuff works as intend.
And just to make sure: Apple behaves the same as that (as linux does as well). Admin operations only run on admin privilege level (sudo or su) not on user level. Its just that programmers for that two platforms are no godlike morrons and follow the security rules applied to the system while windows programmers do not even thought Microsoft tells them to do so for years now.
On OSX it just seems easier because the installers set that up correctly, which currently is not done for Vista because vista just is not out so the needed setup routines are not present.
PS: Mentioning MingW is highly unfair. Its not mingWs or Vistas fault that BM bases on a years old totally outdated MingW version instead of the current one.
Would be as if you enforced GCC 3.2 on Linux or XCode 1 on Apple ...