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Microsoft is removing default admin accounts in Windows 11

“The most significant architectural Windows security change in a generation"

Microsoft is removing default admin accounts in Windows 11
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Microsoft is stripping default administrator accounts from Windows 11 under what Redmond described today as a “paradigm shift in user access control (UAC) architecture for admin users” – and it might break some apps. 

Once rolled out at scale, all users will be standard users by default. If organisational policy allows for it, Windows will generate a token for "just-in-time elevation rights" to admin for a specific task then delete it. 

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