[GLLUG] OT: Vista's DRM cost article updated

[Mike Szumlinski]

I love the corollary.  Obviously written by an OSS guy because the  
concept would NEVER work for consumers.  Wanna install Quake 6?  Oh,  
you don't have the blah blah blah api dependancy.  That'll be $10  
please.  Oh yeah, and that is dependent on blah blah blah 2 .api, so  
we'll need another $5.

For every one person that even knows what a dependency is or what API  
stands for, there are 300 browsing MySpace that just don't care.   
They want to text message (OMGWTFABBQ!?!) and play freecell.  Hell,  
half the people out there STILL think that Microsoft Office is the  
operating system on their machine.

I do find the Vista graphics code article interesting, but it is  
getting pretty close to a year since that article was posted.  Anyone  
on here a Vista beta developer?  Anyone know if this still holds true?

-Mike

On Jan 26, 2007, at 8:02 PM, Thomas Hruska wrote:

> Michael Rudas (computer) wrote:
>> Many of us have seen the Peter Gutmann article "A Cost Analysis of  
>> Windows Vista Content Protection" in its original form.  It has  
>> now been updated to address MS's response, which he deconstructs  
>> neatly:
>> <http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html>
>> Here's the MS response he's referring to:
>> <http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2007/01/20/ 
>> windows-vista-content-protection-twenty-questions-and- 
>> answers.aspx> It's amazing to see how what was originally an  
>> obscure post can take on a life of its own.  The MS response reeks  
>> of legalese and flop-sweat.   It's WAY too overwritten for a  
>> "simple" blog post...
>> -- Mikey
>
> Interesting article on Vista's DRM.
>
> I've got a few blog entries worth reading if you want technical  
> details on Windows Vista:
>
> http://cubicspot.blogspot.com/2006/04/windows-vista-delayed-to-2007- 
> and.html
> http://cubicspot.blogspot.com/2006/06/how-to-force-users-to-upgrade- 
> oses_06.html
> http://cubicspot.blogspot.com/2006/06/corollary.html
>
> First one is on the Vista graphics core code - GDI (pretty stable)  
> replaced with DirectX (highly unstable).  Second entry:  IE7+ for  
> Vista has three features not available to 2000/XP users.  Probably  
> simply #ifdef statements.  Last entry:  Sort of an "afterthought"  
> article on how Vista might have been more useful.
>
> -- 
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