It’s amusing to me that I helped some colleagues get OpenJDK installed. They were trying to do the for all users install and hitting up against the requirement that they don’t have administrator access to install software on their computers. So, I noticed the for me only option and got them to try it.

I wonder how many software vendors are going this route because they know their users are increasingly hitting this limitation.

It sucks for Cybersecurity because the whole point of their approving the administrator requests was so they can screen for malware, ransomware, and other potentially problematic software. It’s just so inconvenient to getting our work done to wait hours for an approval. Plus the uncertainty of getting it. (One person was on day two of getting approval.)

The natural response is already in motion to obtain an inventory of installed software and remove inappropriate installs. So, I wonder what the users will do to end-run this new approach. It’s the normal cycle. Administrators forbid something the users need to get their work done, so they figure out a way to do it anyway.