(OT) Interesting article on Vista

[Ken Moffat]

Here's a cnet take on it:

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-6689143-1.html?tag=nl.e497

Bill Campbell wrote:
> A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
>
>      ``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.
>
> 	http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
>
> Bill
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