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! One can hope, however, the tenticles of MickySoft are everywhere.....we'll see. Fred -- MickySoft, the ultimate corporate parasite. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
