On 2/9/07, OpenSpace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> There are too many bugs and one major bug. Check out this video of
> Microsoft's "Speech Recognition" that bombed in Redmond.
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> http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1079976318
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--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], OpenSpace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> There are too many bugs and one major bug. Check out this video of
> Microsoft's "Speech Recognition" that bombed in Redmond.
There are a lot of Defects for Micro$oft Windows Vista.
"I'm not sure how the company lost sight of what matters to our
> customers, both business and home, the most, but in my view we lost our way.
> I think our teams lost sight of what bug-free means, what resilience means,
> what full scenarios mean, what security means, what performance means, how
> important current applications are, and really understanding what the most
> important problems our customers face are " Jim Allchin, Platform
> Products and Services Group, Microsoft.
I am linking some articles About Windows Vista Design
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"Vista is being marketed to content producers, not consumers. If Windows XP
was Microsoft's attempt to embed a browser into the operating system then
Vista is the attempt to embed DRM. Digital Rights Management technology has
been applied to literally every ring of the OS architecture.
Vista's target market is content producers and the underlying philosophy of
the user experience will be far different then what many consumers expect it
will be. Microsoft has attempted to plug the infamous "analog hole" as much
as is possible by forcing all data through encryption algorithms. For those
unaware of the "costs" of encryption it is sufficiently high. Pushing HD
audio and video content through encryption/decryption routines is a
tremendous strain on any system currently available and in the near future.
Even with the application of Moore's Law a conservative estimate could place
affordable and usable systems within this new content system 5 years away.
It will be interesting to see how these restrictions will be spun by the
large marketing and PR teams since none of these innovations will benefit
consumers in any way. The job that has been handed to these PR and marketing
teams is to dress up a product designed with every restriction a producer
has asked for and make a consumer want to buy it. One of the most quotable
lines from the Gutmann analysis sums this up perfectly as, "breaking the
legs of Olympic athletes and then rating them based on how fast they can
hobble on crutches."
</snip> ( Excerts From "Analysis of Microsoft's Suicide Note (part 1)"
by Oliver
Day is a former corporate hacker turned student.
Read http://badvista.fsf.org/blog/analysis-of-microsofts-suicide-note-part-1
Part 2:
http://badvista.fsf.org/blog/analysis-of-microsofts-suicide-note-part-2
)
Also See the A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection (
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.htm
<http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/%7Epgut001/pubs/vista_cost.htm> ) by Peter
Gutmann, a researcher working on design and analysis of cryptographic
security architectures in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Some Comments about M$ Vista
"When you download licenses for protected content, you agree that Microsoft
> may include a revocation list with the licenses [...] content owners may ask
> Microsoft to revoke the software's ability to use WMDRM to play or copy
> protected content" Windows Vista EULA.
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"I propose that each copy of the OS should ship with an orange jumpsuit
and sensory deprivation goggles, since all Vista users have been
unilaterally declared 'enemy combatants' by the content apparatchiki "
Daniel Nevin.
"Windows Vista? And what a vista! All you see as you look around your
garden is a 60foot high brick wall" Crosbie Fitch.
"[Microsoft researcher] England has a bold plan to improve the PC and
make it a secure delivery system for audio and video. England's solution
involves making minor modifications to the PC's hardware to allow Microsoft
to make a secure version of the Windows Media Player. Essentially, this
would turn the PC into a record player as far as music is concerned"
Microsoft Research News.
"This is obviously some strange use of the word 'improve' which I've
previously been unaware of" Arthur dent.
"welcome to the new world of DRM where expensive pieces of hardware
across the world could potentially be remotely rendered useless by
over-zealous copyright holders. Way to go, Hollywood!" Chip Mulligan.
"I've just had my first experience with HD content being blocked. I
purchased an HP Media Center PC with a built-in HD DVD player, together with
a 24" 'high definition' 1920 x 1200 HP flat panel display (HP LP2465). They
even included an HD movie, 'The Bourne Supremacy'. Sure enough, the movie
won't play because while the video card supports HDCP content protection,
the monitor doesn't. (It plays if I connect an old 14" VGA CRT using a
DVI-to-VGA connector)" Roger Strong.
"I could not be more skeptical about the viability of the DRM included
with Vista, from either a technical or a business standpoint. It's so
consumer-unfriendly that I think it's bound to fail and when it fails, it
will sink whatever new formats content owners are trying to impose" Matt
Rosoff, lead analyst, Directions On Micro$oft.
"The net effect of these concerns may constitute the real Vista
revolution as they point to an unprecedented loss of consumer control over
their own personal computers [...] Vista seemingly wrestles control of the
'user experience' from the user " Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in
Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law.
The Bad Vista Campaign:Stopping Vista adoption by promoting free software
The BadVista campaign is an advocate for the freedom of computer users,
opposing adoption of Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free (as in
freedom) software replacements.
Free Software Foundation has launched BadVista.org, a campaign with a
twofold mission of interrogating Vista and spotlighting free software
replacements. The campaign will comprise the organization of supporters into
effective and unusual direct actions protesting Microsoft's daylight theft
of our freedoms, the aggregation of news stories critical of Vista, and the
provision of a user-friendly gateway to free software adoption.
With this campaign, we will ensure that each time reporters mention Vista,
they will be comparing it not to Windows XP or Mac OS/X, but to
gNewSense<http://www.gnewsense.org/>and other
free software
distributions<http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions>.
By making our criticisms from a place of freedom, we will ensure that
comparisons focus on the ethical relationship between user and software
not only on which system has the better graphical transparency or the
superior benchmark performance. Our aggregation of all the bad news about
Vista will be a valuable resource available for anyone trying to write an
honest assessment.
Join Bad Vista.org : http://badvista.org
FootNote:
Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) is a technology that affects all users
of computers, media players, mobile phones and other devices. DRM
technologies are based on the principle that a third party has more
influence over your devices than you, and that their interests will override
yours when they come in conflict. That is even true where your interest is
perfectly legitimate and legal, and possibly also for your own data Join In
Indian DRM Elimination Crew at http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign
Anivar Aravind
movingRepublic
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