Vista MS new platform ?

[Sam Slater]

Whoa there!

Read THIS first.

I'm certainly not switching for at least another 9 months-1 year. I may even consider a OX10 FOR web browsing, e-mail, music & movie playback and photo retouching/video editing. (just about everything bar gaming really).

[Jacques]

Not a fucking chance of that piece of shit ever being on a single PC that I own.

[Lizard]

Me Neither, big brother personified, dont go near it.

[andy at handiwork]

I had heard that it was bad news from a personnal privacy aspect, with MS getting to know a little bit too much about you.

[Jacques]

It's worse than that - if it decides that you have illegal software, movie or mp3 (whether legal or not does not matter) it shuts down all of your drivers, thereby rendering your pc utterly useless.

Remember the 'Windows Genuine Advantage' debarcle, When genuine users were being asked to pay for a real copy because thiers was pirate? Mulltiply that by a factor of about a million.....

[Snake Diamond]

Well, after readiing that extensive document, & various other articles I found online, WinBlows Vista reminds me of a certain German Dictator who had meglomaniac tendancies, as well as the capabilities to turn any decent computer into an exceptionally expensive DOOR STOP.

I have already had experiences with DRM issues. I run WinBlows XP Home, with IE 7, & WMP 11.0. I put a LEGALLY Purchased DVD into my computer's DVD Drive, and it WOULD NOT work. Suddenly WMP told me, that the DVD contravened the DMA, & therefore is prevented from playing, let alone even seeing or hearing anything from the Disc.

I have 6 differant Media Players on this machine, & lots of Codec Testing software, NONE of them work on the disc now, since WinBlows auto-updated WMP & IE in November. Uninstalling/backdating will NOT work.

My viewpoint:
Microsoft can shove Vista up their ass, sideways, with NO Lube either!!!