Re: Vista, Schmister.
- From: Robin T Cox <nomail@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:53:56 GMT
On Thu, 17 May 2007 09:38:07 +0100, ray wrote:
Was at a gathering of friends at the weekend where a Gateway laptop wasSee:
pulled out in order to show some digital photographs off a dvd that had
been burned on the machine the previous day. The DVD was inserted and
the machine whirred away and ultimately did nothing more than display a
dialogue box of questions. I was sitting soma way away and couldn't read
the screen, but it took about 5 minutes from there to get the machine to
accept the fact that all the operator wanted to do was run the dvd.
The machine was owned by Vista Home Premium. The person who thought he
owned the machine was a bit miffed.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
Windows Vista includes an extensive reworking of core OS elements in order
to provide content protection for so-called “premium content”, typically
HD data from Blu-Ray and HD-DVD sources. Providing this protection incurs
considerable costs in terms of system performance, system stability,
technical support overhead, and hardware and software cost. These issues
affect not only users of Vista but the entire PC industry, since the
effects of the protection measures extend to cover all hardware and
software that will ever come into contact with Vista, even if it's not
used directly with Vista (for example hardware in a Macintosh computer or
on a Linux server). This document analyses the cost involved in Vista's
content protection, and the collateral damage that this incurs throughout
the computer industry.
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