Months go, I reviewed Windows Vista, and concluded: "All in all, I am impressed by Windows Vista [...]. Windows Vista is better than XP, and definitely more than just an improved look as many say." After 5 months of usage, it is time to put that statement into perspective.
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Member since:2006-02-05
You are not being forced into buying DRM protected content, or DRM protected hardware when you install vista. You can happily run vista, and deal with DRM as little as if you were running linux.
HOWEVER
if you run linux, you are stuck with open formats, which while technologically comparable, are completely unsupported by commercial industry. That means that if install linux, you do not have the choice anymore of viewing media you legally bought. the reason? the lack of support of drm media.
So, lets reiterate.
Vista: the ability to choose whether to view drm media or not view drm media
Linux: no ability to (legally) view the majority of commercially supported formats.
Which one of these options offers choice? The argument on the evility of protected content is a completely and totally different issue, the fact of the matter is that it is here, and vista gives you the option of buying in, or not. linux doesnt.
Member since:2006-03-12
No please let me reiterate.
Vista: Has Trusted Computing; Built into the OS; You can only view HD Protected content through a major upgrade in hardware or which a small number of computers on sale support. Your Protected(sic) media causes your computer to pass information to a third-party, which can change at *any* time though an update. With any false positive crippling your machine; The ramifications of this go *beyond* that of the OS itself to the hardware which comes with exiting technology.
Linux: buy a Chinese HD-player.
Which of these offers choice *Linux*. Linux has offered the choice of buying an OS that is not crippled by DRM
Member since:
2006-05-01
http://www.xkcd.com/c129.html
I certainly want the CHOICE of drm or not. People in general were never made aware of the choice, or that there even is a choice.
Vista x64 is worse than XP because it makes hardware subjugate to the *AA/MS/IBM/EDS, sony and the content producers. Perhaps not of note in a 1 of N, 5 month review; but it is important longer-term because we need the freedom to understand the products we buy and own.
If I did run !vista, and the machine is technically capable of playing HD, why are you all so comfortable, or at ease, with it being artificially crippled ? Because that is what vista and hdcp do. They let MS coerce artificial-technical-obsolecence by legal and licensing means.
Oh, on a separate note, 500 euros no apps ! huh ?