On Friday December 29 2006 1:59 am, Curtis Rey wrote:
This move may have well been done to placate those such as the RIAA and MPAA, as well as M$' own obsession with piracy - but it spells nothing but heartache for a host of devs/OEM's/ISV's and independent hardware vendors. Just imagine all that backstock going fallow because all the OEMs such as Dell and HP pre-install Vista only to hear a torrid amount of service and support calls that amount to little more than - "I'm sorry, you'll have to upgrade your vid or sound card" or "you can't play your dvd unless you use a Licensed player, or "I'm sorry, you can't share your family videos with your cousins or grandchildren unless they're using Vista" - if that works in the first place. DRM and other things like the DMCA are braindead from the start - and the fact that M$ had tied so much of it's future into these sorts of technologies and practices in todays climate is IMHO a sure fire road to ruin. Any takers on how long it will be after the masses get Vista before M$ starts to work on a fix for this (that's if they can fix it in the first place). Not to mention the ire of the blackhatters and their increased efforts to circumvent and foil anything M$?
I don't think MickySoft can "back out" all that code quickly! It's embedded deep in the OS and in many different places, affecting a number of their applications as well. I can't belive that Gates is that stupid to want to try and pull this crap off, but Ballmer is an ego maniac - a SUPER SIZED ego maniac who is most likely behind it!
Could indeed be the longest suicide note to date!
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