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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Why I will never (by choice) use Windows Vista

This (rather long, extremely detailed, and must-read) paper by University of Auckland (New Zealand) security researcher Peter Gutmann describes how the content-protection schemes incorporated into Windows Vista will damage the entire industry as hardware manufacturers gear up to support the onerous requirements of the content providers.
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.
I have made a solemn oath to never, by choice, use Windows Vista. It's very likely, probably inevitable, that I'll have an office PC with Vista and there will be nothing I can do about it. My oath applies to personal computers where I specify the purchase and sign the charge slip.
|| Andrew, 2:35 PM || ||

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