[lbo-talk] Vista

[bitch at pulpculture.org]

At 05:52 AM 2/1/2007, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
>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.

would this make it impossible for her to run both word processor and 
browser w/o running out of memory -- as she claims in the article?

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