Crippling of Windows Vista due to content protection?

[zeus36]

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

Looks at some of the inner workings of Vista and how certain media will be crippled with decreased playback quality and blocking of non-HDCP High Definition signals.

 

[Orgetorix]

Surprise, surprise.

 

[MattJH]

Not to mention that Microsoft was already working on the creation and scheduled deployment of Vista Service Pack 1 before Vista was even released.

It took me a long, long time to go from DOS 6.22 to Windows 98. It took me a long time to go from Windows 98 to Windows ME (which was, in hindsight, a mistake). Windows ME was enough of a burn that I didn't change my OS again until Windows XP Professional was the standard for quite some time. I don't plan on migrating to Windows Vista anytime soon. This doesn't say very much -- my upgrade patterns are a result of distrust.

 

[Phil]

I said this to Hemingway Jones and I'll say it here.
When asked the age old question, "Would you rather have it done, or done right?" Microsoft answered, "done." Vista has a lot of problems and bugs. I'm sure in a year or two when everything is worked out and people have cracked and hacked their way into the software and made patches and upgrades and such, then it will be a great OS. I know those apple commercials are gonna have a field day with this one.

 

[Twitch]

Every Windoze version has had issues that have ultimately worked out to varying degrees. Probably best to find the version that works best for your hardware/software and stick with it. MS, Mac or Unix pay your money and make your choice.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

I have a feeling

Vista might just go the way of Window$ ME,...Hasta la Vista lol