Microsoft Standard User Analyzer

Yesterday Microsoft released the Microsoft Standard User Analyzer, a tool designed to evaluate whether a given piece of software is able to run properly without administrative access. The awesome part of this is that it's put right out there as an integrated analysis, and not just a list of requirements or anything. This means that it can easily be included as a requirement in purchase policies (a department wishing to purchase software can fully test it where IT may not understand all features) and external RFPs ("must have no problems running as a standard user as evaluated by Microsoft Standard User Analyzer v1.0"). If all software can be pulled under the requirement, it'd be much harder to justify giving out admin access for people who shouldn't be installing software but need it to run some program. That means fewer computers to fix because junk was installed. It should be interesting to see how fast this is adopted. Hopefully it'll be seen by software companies as a required feature to list SUA compliance quickly.