Usually, new software enables you to do more with your computer. Vista, though, is designed to restrict what you can do.
Vista enforces new forms of “Digital Rights Management (DRM)”. DRM is more accurately called Digital Restrictions Management, because it is a technology that Big Media and computer companies try to impose on us all, in order to have control over how our computers are used.
Technology security expert Bruce Schneier explains it most concisely:
Windows Vista includes an array of “features” that you don't want. These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure. They'll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will cause technical support problems. They may even require you to upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software. And these features won't do anything useful. In fact, they're working against you. They're digital rights management (DRM) features built into Vista at the behest of the entertainment industry—And you don't get to refuse them.
Your computer is very
DRM can be turned off.
Vista? what a deceptive name for the Master Control Program!
A literate audience would prefer an OS that is efficiently written, that works with existing software, and that can be setup directly without having to resort to tricks and workarounds. And they actually want money for this piece of shit? The fact that they refuse to allow users to exchange Vista Home Premium for XP even in its most basic form just proves how little it is really worth.
I've been into computing and computers for over 30 years and I was FORCED into Vista when I bough my latest Laptop. My desktop is still running under Windows 98 SE and it's working fine, thank you, without requiring formatting for TEN YEARS, and some of my best software dates from the early 90s and is superbly efficient, fast and effective at what it does. I'll take small, fast and effective any day over any of Microsoft's inefficient, half-baked bloatware!
We are at a conjuncture now where American software (it would seem that people have forgotten how to design and code software to be effective and to empower the user and instead is simply cut and pasted seemingly from catalogs of scripts and routines without any concern for the user. Microsoft is not the only one to blame, look how slow and bloated Photoshop has become, for example. It's like Detroit's cars in the 70s all over again.
I sincerely believe that Vista was designed to empower Microsoft and allow it control how computers are used and to prevent independent thinking outside of the parameters set forth by Microsoft. It was designed to turn users into obedient, well-behaved citizens of the web. Microsoft's idea of the web, that is. If you cannot see that, you haven't been following Microsoft's push towards 'web integration' and the push for software licensing whereby one would not be able to acquire a license anymore and would be forced to pay per use instead. This level of greed in simply unimaginable!
In other words, through Vista, Microsoft basically tells you what you are allowed to do with your computer. This level of arrogance is unconscionable and is in total opposition to the basic principle of personal computing, which was intended to free users from the hegemony of corporations.
Shades of TRON anyone? ;)
It's high time we revolted against Microsoft's 'Master Control' over Computing. The whole concept of Vista itself is WRONG. Refuse to be locked into it!
Vista is not that bad
I recently bought a high end computer and it came with windows Vista Ultimate installed. I think a lot of people fear the 'DRM' features of the software but are unaware that it is in place only for commercial mainstream products such as HD movies or HD cable TV content. That stuff is locked down anyway; if you buy a Blu-ray or HD-DVD drive, you'll have the same sort of HDCP installed that Vista has.
What you cannot do in commercial DVD drives that you CAN do in Vista is play additional file fromats that don't include DRM or HDCP. For instance, you can play an MPEG4 file on Vista just as you could on XP or any other operating system. Vista doesn't restrict their usage on the OS. The 'DRM' that everyone is worried about only applies to the mind manipulation sold by Hollywood and the major music lables; who needs that stuff anyway right? :D
Forget about the WGA! 20+ Windows Vista Features and Services...
vista is stupid
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Ubuntu Linux is almost very consumer-ready, and I would recommend it in many cases, although not always...
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Vista is a piece of s..t in fact. No substancial improvements comparing to xp(i dont give a damn about appearance). Instead vista is bigger, slower and not compatible with older applications.
But microsoft will do anything to force U to get it!
Dont U know that directx 10 is available(officially) only on vista...?!?
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