Website review: A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Co...
fatesfoe discovered this in Computers
•37 reviews since Dec 22, 2006
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fatesfoe discovered 19 months ago- Excellent white paper on vista. Well worth the read, especially considering the audio and video limitations with regard to "content protection". i.e. don't bother spending hours trying to get audio optical out or component video out working on a vista system. It's just not going to work...
- disposed rated 18 months ago
- It seems that Microsoft, at the behest of the movie and record industry, is intent on reducing the computer to a mere vehicle for delivery of content to passive consumers.
- theoffset rated 18 months ago
- Huh?! Is this for real?!
- Daoro rated 19 months ago
- The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history. Why ? It's a serie of BIG, annoying (and sometimes even dangerous) restrictions placed upon the user. Plus it adds some dangerous side effects : higher hardware prices, threat upon publishing of open specifications and free software, control and check over datas (and what you are doing with them), slower performances, etc... etc... Be informed, and choose to accept it or not BUT at least know what you bought. If you don't like all of these restrictions and want your freedom back, try getting infos about Linux.
- chperret rated 19 months ago
- From the page:
"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. The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history."
French version : http://chl.be/vista/ - From the page:
- ael rated 19 months ago
- There is something wrong with Vista, maybe with Intel too. Intel: why the 775? Microsoft: encrypting a bus? estás crazy Macaya? I think they both are missing some ties to ground.
- korkman rated 19 months ago
- "The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history" - so true!
- ajundra rated 19 months ago
- From the page: "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection Executive Summary ----------------- 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. Executive Executive Summary --------------------------- The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history [Note A]."
- the-egg rated 19 months ago
- From the page: "Amusingly, the Vista content protection docs say that it'll be left to graphics chip manufacturers to differentiate their product based on (deliberately degraded) video quality. This seems a bit like breaking the legs of Olympic athletes and then rating them based on how fast they can hobble on crutches." why would i want to use vista again?
