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On Vista. Besides the Applications to run on it, how
about the hardware to run it on?

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

An Excerpt:
The worst thing about all of this is that there's no
escape. Hardware manufacturers will have to drink the
kool-aid (and the reference to mass suicide here is
deliberate [Note N]) in order to work with
Vista: “There is no requirement to sign the
[content-protection] license; but without a
certificate, no premium content will be passed to the
driver”. Of course as a device manufacturer you can
choose to opt out, if you don't mind your device only
ever being able to display low-quality, fuzzy, blurry
video and audio when premium content is present, while
your competitors don't have this (artificially-created)
problem.
As a user, there is simply no escape. Whether you use
Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 95, Linux, FreeBSD,
OS X, Solaris (on x86), or almost any other OS, Windows
content protection will make your hardware more
expensive, less reliable, more difficult to program
for, more difficult to support, more vulnerable to
hostile code, and with more compatibility problems.
Because Windows dominates the market and device vendors
are unlikely to design and manufacture two different
versions of their products, non-Windows users will be
paying for Windows Vista content-protection measures in
products even if they never run Windows on them.

Posted by: Ole Man   Posted on: 01/25/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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