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sudo is a very common command under Linux and lets users run commands under the Linux Superuser. With Windows Vista Microsoft introduced UAC (User Access Control). And every user was just an ordinary user and executed it's programmes under ordinary user rights. Because this enhanced the security level it is a good thing. But for an administrator it can be very annoying.
Many admins work with the command line interface (cmd.exe) and stay in such a session for quite a long time. They don't want to start services by clicking the Start button and going to Control Center and there right-clicking the Services Management Tool and running it as Administrator.
Most of them would like to type 'net start [ServiceName]' and hit enter. This does not work any more from normal user terminal. They'll get the error 'Access denied'. Now they can go the following way: Open start-menu, type cmd, right-click and select 'run as Administrator' and then run the command again in the new terminal.
Or they could download sudo (yes, this one here), unzip the exe to somewhere in the search path, and then just type 'sudo net start [ServiceName]' in the same terminal again. The next click would only be the one to tell windows to allow the elevation. (sorry, but I can't stop Windows from doing that)
This works with every command, not just the 'net' command. You can elevate every command that needs admin privileges.
That's all for now,
hava fun :)