Analysis of Microsoft’s Suicide Note (part 1) — BadVista

“In a controversial technical analysis Peter Gutmann goes into fantastic detail about the recently released Vista operating system and its content protection scheme. One thing became clear to me after reading this analysis. Vista is being marketed to content producers, not consumers. If Windows XP was Microsoft’s attempt to embed a browser into the operating system then Vista is the attempt to embed DRM. Digital Rights Management technology has been applied to literally every ring of the OS architecture.”

This is my thought exactly.  Microsoft is no longer pro customer.  They are out for blood and they want your cash for little return on investment.  You will pay for restrictions.  As a consumer, you should be concerned that you are getting value for your money.  At this time, Microsoft is not trying to increase market share as much as they are trying to get in bed with media industries for larger returns and paybacks later.

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