Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 23rd Dec 2006 17:36 UTC, submitted by PR
"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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2006-12-07
Theese are serious drawbacks. I am pretty sure that there are better ways to protect content. I am pretty sure that whatever comes from Microsoft after Vista would have to be something completely different.
According to the specifications on Microsoft site, "2003 R2" server requires 128 MB RAM and 90 or 133 MHz CPU to work. They are supposed to be the same code base. What could be the reason of such performance gap ? Where have all those mergabytes and megahertzs gone ?
How does Mac handle the protected content ?
DG