Darren’s session was up before mine and he was presenting on some of the UX and security enhancements (among other things) to be found in Windows Vista. By the far the most contentious issue for the audience was UAP/UAC (User Access Protection/User Access Control – depending on who you ask).
Because developers tend to run as administrators on their machine it was interesting to see the rooms reaction when they discovered that Vista would actually fight against their elevated privilege adiction. Indeed - with the current build of Visual Studio 2005, its hard to see how you can survive without administrative rights – particularly when dealing with ASP.NET development and SQL Express (if thats part or your solution).