Posted by TheFlaggman on 12/20/07 16:29

On Dec 18, 12:20 am, "Richard Crowley" <rcrow...@xp7rt.net> wrote:
> "Bob Ford" wrote ...
>
> > The horror stories I have recently heard is there are all kinds of
> > other things besides programs that may need to be changed to be
> > compatible with Vista?
>
> It seems like hardware vendors are slower to upgrade their drivers
> for Vista. But maybe I am just getting old and curmudgeonly.
>
> The main "benefits" of Vista don't seem like positives to me...
>
> 1) Whizzier eye-candy user interface. [Waste of CPU horsepower, IMO]
> 2) More integrated and invasive DRM [Makes even dealing with my own
> media files more difficult, from reports.]

I agree. That DRM and authentication combined with malicious removal
can make a mess of your set up with no warning. I had a DJ software
app installed and it worked fine, althought I did sweep it before
install, as well as after install to remove a cookie/data miner I was
aware of. It was cleaned and worked fine for a long time. Then MS
brought out all the DRM and malicious removal, and I assume some
clause in their OS license gave them their OK to do whatever they
wanted and the DJ softwrae was toast. The media player and encoder
codecs were changed on another occasion and I assume it affected the
extension files that were shared with the editor on a third occasion.
It can be a problem, especially when they don't identify what the
updates do or affect. It always falls back to their standard not
agreeing with the mfrs and the license statement that says they can
apparently do what they like with you machine and not have to tell
you. DRM is a help to some artists and authors but definitely not
independent producers on small scales. Too bad they kill a whole area
of honest video buffs motivation for the sake of a few bad ones. I
often wonder why we never hear Apple or Linux users complaining of
similar problems.

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