Windows Vista DRM Degradation

A while back, I posted about a huge rant some guy in New Zeeland made about Vista degrading all sorts of things if the DRM is violated, making it sound like the computer basically rolled over and died (well, that is sort of Windows' default fail mode, isn't it? :P ). Unfortunately I can't find said post, I really wish LJ's editing and searching capabilities were stronger. Perhaps if I were to download my blog to a local database....


ANYWAY, this guy (Ed Bott) has written a five page rebuttal (part 1 of 3 or more) called "Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong". He picks apart many of the fundamental points from the original screed by Gutmann and methodically demolishes them one by one.

Bott may be right. Certainly sounds correct and supports his assertions, something that Gutmann apparently didn't do well. It still doesn't do much to change my opinion about Vista and Microsoft bending over backwards to please content providers at the cost of stunting the OS. I'm sure SP1 will fix lots of stuff in Vista, hopefully it will be a lot more than just a rollup of all of the patches to date. I'm hoping I won't have to deal with it until at least SP2. :P

I'm quite happy with my MacBook Pro, thenkyewveddymuch.

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