It's interesting that in Mac OS X, the traditional Unix "root" user isn't enabled by default, and the user that Apple calls "admin", which you'd expect to have administrator access, isn't root.
Apple is using this mechanism to protect the OS from users (and the code they run), who will probably have to run as users with elevated privileges to allow older Mac apps to work. That's my guess anyway.
Microsoft went a different route - having the OS protect it's files, but giving users the ability to overwrite them. Either way it's funny watching the OS try to keep the users from messing with it.
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