[ShadowAce]

[MortMan]

Ruh-roh. Microsoft may well see lawsuits when OEM versions of Vista are erroneously identified as pirated - as with the current anti-piracy software they have. This will undoubtedly end up costing some business somewhere a bunch of money.

JMHO.

[TChris]

The company also said it has added more sophisticated technology for monitoring whether a system is pirated. For example, the system will be able to perform some piracy checks internally, without contacting Microsoft, Lindeman said.

Microsoft is just itching for a customer revolt.

[dubie]

who will actually buy vista I wonder?

[furquhart]

Having used Vista Beta 5484 and RC1, I'll say this - if you have modern hardware, it's probably worth the money.

But Vista is a real bear.

The most interesting thing about Vista is that it demands:

1) I'd say over 1 Gig of Ram - 2 Gigs is probably ideal, for now.

2) A high-end video card. Well, not high end - but higher than any integrated graphics chipset, and many low-level stand alone cards.

The real bitch is going to be on Notebooks, most of which - even many "high-end" ones - have integrated graphics. A lot of people are going to be mighty pissed when the find out that their $1500 Lattitude or Thinkpad can't run full Vista with Aero Glass.

[Dont Mention the War]

Whatever this is, it'll be cracked in less than 24 hours.

And in most cases, being "denied" Aero will be a feature.

[steve-b]

LOL -- once they start inflicting this on millions of legit customers (every one of their anti-bootleg systems to date has had a very high false-positive rate, and I see no reason to suppose they're going to do any better this time), there will be hell to pay.

[kingu]

Kay also doesn't expect the new piracy measures to be that effective against hardcore pirates, who have built de facto businesses selling illegal Windows copies. But he thinks it will stop some lower-level piracy.

See, this is just a question of professionalism. If you decide to nab some copies of Vista to go install into your home computers from your corporate license, yup, they'll be dumbing down your computer. But if you buy it from the Mexican on the street corner who got it from the guy in Hong Kong, well, then you're golden.

Advice to Microsoft: Make the price reasonable; people will pay for it. Make all your products licensed for an entire home or a certain number of seats in business, and you'll make far more money. Do it now; the next generation is getting used to pirating.

[Republicain]

Time to 'Think different'...

[VanDeKoik]

Bah.

Im loving Ubuntu too much to care about Vista.

[KarlInOhio]

Other than kicking up the amount of physical RAM, is there any reason why I would want to switch to Vista? A lot of the fancy graphics I've seen look like massive wastes of CPU power. (But then I'm the guy who is still looking for Windows Punchcard.)

[VoiceOfBruck]

I can't wait to see how bad the SW runs when M$ deliberately screws it up!

[savedbygrace]

Arr!

[Theo]

We lost the install disk that came with our PC, and found ourselves having to reinstall the OS. We borrowed a friend's copy of Windows, and installed that. I suppose our PC would be crippled because I lost the original install disk....

[Echo Talon]

You want Vista buy it.

[Diplomat]

"Vista" and "Longhorn" are the Airbus 380 of Operating Systems.

Fat bloated pigs that will come in way over budget, delivered years late, barely fly and destined to irritate their customers.

[Wuli]

Another piece of news on MS-Vista today is public charges from the head of McAfee that MS is not delivering what McAfee and Symantec need (re the Vista kernal) so that their anti-virus and security apps will work with Vista.

At the same time, it is known that MS is looking to bundle its own anti-virus and security apps inside the Vista OS. The tech industry sees this development as a net-loss for real anti-virus and security protections for Vista in the long run, when avaliable competitive offerings have been put out of the market by the MS-OS-and-market bundling approach that MS takes with PC makers. When there are no strong MS competitors for anti-virus and security apps, the changes of a Vista vulnerability affecting all Vista users will be greater.

It seems the monopolist mode of MS will never change.

[kms61]

I'm not a pirate, but MS's trend of making their products more of a pain in the a$$ to use and/or upgrade is pushing me toward Apple and/or Linux.

[Space Wrangler]

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[mysterio]

Cool. Pissed off customers will create a market for another operating system.