MS responds to 'A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection'

[BoyOfDestiny]

Original article
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt

MS' Response
http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/01/20/windows-vista-content-protection-twenty-questions-and-answers.aspx

I'm glad to see with most of the comments... People don't seem to be too enthused by it...

My feeling is use a closed set top box, rather than lock down and burden the PC and still get a weaker experience... Although even those may have issues, but hopefully less costly...

Anyway, we may be getting a few more Ubuntu users judging from the comments...

:guitar:

[Josh1]

Lol Vista, when I use Windows XP at TAFE, even though it's Windows it's actually not that bad.... tried out vista and I actually laughed, my beryl is cooler this this $400 piece of *nonlinux*. :confused:

[celsofaf]

Not convincent.

[FuturePilot]

my beryl is cooler this this $400 piece of *nonlinux*. :confused:
ROTFL:lolflag: QFT=D>
Beryl is way better.


Once a weakness is found in a particular driver or device, that driver will have its signature revoked by Microsoft, which means that it will cease to function (in informal terms, your device gets bricked, i.e. turned into a brick). Details on exactly what happens are a bit vague here, the specs contain sentences like "the related driver would have to be revoked and a new driver would have to be deployed", however presumably some minimum functionality like generic 640x480 VGA support will still be available in order for the system to boot.
Oh, that's just great. Turn on your computer one day to find you graphics card that you paid a couple hundred dollars for has been bricked:evil: