Centauri's Thoughts

I ran across some more info for those that think, "Vista isnt that bad". It has the potential to cause increased hardware costs for all of us, running M$ or not (because of agreements with M$ for years to come).

The DRM (Digital Rights Management) is causing problems for legitimate users, and its been talked about before.

Here then, are some topics from the story and at the end a link to the whole paper (which I encourage you to read):

Disabling of Functionality
Decreased Playback Quality
Elimination of Open-source Hardware Support
Elimination of Unified Drivers
Denial-of-Service via Driver/Device Revocation
Increased Hardware Costs

Basically, if M$ even thinks your drivers dont pass the DRM muster, its suddenly disabled. (Look under the 'Denial-of-Service via Driver/Device Revocation' for that one).

The article in its entirety is here as vista cost