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Originally Posted by JSWolf
From some of what I've read about Vista, it's DRM restrictions and "security" features only tend to harm the innocent.
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Its restrictions on HD video, yes, I completely agree with you there.
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Plus the amount of hassle I've seen for people to get software to run is crazy. Book Designer is a prime example. I really think Microsoft dropped the ball big time on Vista.
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But I don't agree with you about that. When software doesn't run properly on Vista, it's because the programmers ignored the "rules". Follow documented ways of doing things, and it all works just fine. The version of my astronomy software I wrote for Windows 95 works perfectly on Vista, for example, because I did it "right". BD does
not do things the right way (eg it writes to its application directory, something which has
never been permissible to do). Blame the developers of the misbehaving apps, not Vista.
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Now to have some company come out with an expensive gadget like an eink device and make it rely on Vista for functionality is asking for trouble. Will DRM get in the way of this device and cause it to have problems? And it doesn't say what sort of content this thing will handle.
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"Sideshow" is one of the "coolest" features of Vista. I'm absolutely delighted to see device come out which use it.