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Good for you!

Personally I have 10 Vista Business upgrade licenses that go with my 10 XP Pro licenses. But I won't upgrade to Vista. That's my choice, not yours.

If you can't read about or refuse to acknowledge the Media Foundation Protected Pipeline [EXE] layer that runs every time any audio or video content is played in Vista, that's your choice too.

If you can't see the potential for MS to tighten the restrictions in Vista to play your files because they can't secure their own DRM content, that's your choice.

So how long have you been buying and using MS products? For me it's over 2 decades (21 years). I have beta tested the first three versions of NT. I am also a MS Partner (many years there too). I have watched and personally experienced all of the things that MS has done over almost the entire history of the company.

I don't need to install Vista to read about other people's experience with it and to know what it's about. I don't have to even search to find out about its major shortcomings, some of which are even discussed on MS own web forums. I don't have the time to play with Vista when XP Pro does everything I need anyway. And I especially don't need need to prove anything to you.

But maybe you can enlighten me. Why did you move to Vista just to "rip CD's and DVD's, play Divx movies, run bittorrent and nntp clients, listen to my MP3 collection and everything else I was doing on my old XP box" when you could easily do this on the XP box without paying for new hardware and software?

Also, you do know that ripping, or DeCSS'ing, DVD content is illegal don't you? In spite of fair use, it's illegal to frustrate DRM or unencrypt copyrighted material because of the DCMA. You probably won't be caught or fined but it's still against what the major content companies think you should do.

Perhaps MS does need to block non DRM content because of criminals like yourself. Thanks for ruining it for the rest of us. It's people like you that motivate the collusion of MS and the content owners to make it more difficult for everyone.

Posted by: jacarter3   Posted on: 07/17/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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