OT: VISTA

[capnq]

Microsoft has said that even if the machine was primed to accept voice commands it would be unlikely the user would not be in the room to hear the file with malicious instructions being played.

Oh, that's so reassuring...

I'm sure Vista runs so slowly that when you hear the malicious file playing, you'll be able to move quickly enough to interrupt it. And everybody has the specialized software you need to restore a file that's already been flushed from the Recycle Bin.

[xierxior]

I tried vista ultimate and I wasn't impressed, the font doesn't scale properly when you increase the dpi to make fonts bigger on very large moniters, it uses ALOT of memory (500+ mb compared to xp's 100mb foot print), DRM is built into the os and I am not a fan of drm, did I mention drm? oh noes you can't copy that mp3!.., the drivers are in a rather beta'ish state right now, vista really doesn't offer anything (new) other then some security measures that helps lockdown the average joes computer, the price 500? wtf.

now the good

the aereo interface IS very nice looking, for using an boatload of ram it still runs games fairly quickly (on average about 10 fps slower then xp, its alot more secure out of the box then xp is, better networking support then xp.

[xierxior]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
For any software today to not support a mouse is pretty near inexcusable.

you have heard of linux right?

[Phoenix-D]

xierxior said:

you have heard of linux right?

Same thing. I shouldn't have to open a CLI just to get a text editor..

Ubuntu, trying to edit a config file- except I don't have permissions, I need sudo. No equivalent of sudo in the GUI. Worse, the CLI doesn't start in the same folder I was in, so I have to manually navigate back to that folder before I can edit.

[Renegade 13]

What exactly does Vista do with regards to DRM that's different than previous OS's, for example, XP??

[shinigami]

link

[Edit] Corrected link.

[PvK]

Also see this article!

The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history

[Fyron]

You can't really blame MS for HDCP. They couldn't get a license to support full HDMI output without fully implementing HDCP. If they did not, all they could do is output HDCP-protected video at non-HD resolutions. Your scorn in this instance is more correctly placed at the feet of the content industry (primarily the MPAA). HDCP is only an issue with Blu-ray and HD-DVD, not regular DVD movie playback, which does not have the higher-resolution HD support. The MPAA is obsessed with copy protection, and will only license Blu-ray and HD-DVD technology to companies that are willing to integrate HDCP. If they did not require it, MS wouldn't have bothered implementing HDCP. Display manufacturers (monitors, tvs) have to support HDCP as well, otherwise they won't be able to play high resolution movies. Its quite an insidious system...

MS could have chosen to not support HDCP, but then they could not include software to access Blu-ray and HD-DVD movies (or drives, for that matter) at full resolution. They apparently decided it would be better to support new technology than be left behind, and thus ridiculed for that reason.

[Kamog]

Will these Blu-ray and HD-DVD movies be viewable under XP, or do we need to upgrade to Vista to get them to work?

[Fyron]

You can view them in XP now, through the use of 3rd party software. MS just wanted WiMP to be able to play HDCP protected content at full resolution.