[wastedyears]

Now I know I'll stick to Windows XP.

[LonePalm]

Sounds like the definition of a virus to me.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[hophead]

Bill Gates IS Big Brother!

[B4Ranch]

That kinda reminds me of the Patriot Act.

[snarks_when_bored]

Microsoft Vista:  the Soylent Green of PC operating systems.

[redgolum]

Even after installation, the legal agreement grants Microsoft the right to revalidate the software or to require users to reactivate it should they make changes to their computer components. In addition, it sets significant limits on the ability to copy or transfer the software, prohibiting anything more than a single backup copy and setting strict limits on transferring the software to different devices or users.

XP has a similar set up.

[rlmorel]

Ping for a later post of URL with interesting information.

[DonaldC]

I think the direction Microsoft is moving in is disturbing..but it is their product I guess.

Regarding defender, I ran that stuff on my w2k box for a while and it never found anything. That would be good if were not for the fact that spybot and adaware were finding things. Did anyone else run it and what did you think?

[Constantine XIII]

Someone contact Admiral Ackbar. I think we need his input here.

[VeniVidiVici]

Yawn. Same old ****, different day.

[NonValueAdded]

Vista seemingly wrestles control of the "user experience" from the user

Jeez, they're turning it into a Mac!

[Constantine XIII]

LOL, that didn't take long. Looks like someone's already cracked Vista's DRM.

http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/01/29/1811201.shtml

[theFIRMbss]

Someday, someone will build special asylums for the people who feel the imperative to spend every waking hour "informing" the world of Microsoft's "flaws" and attacking everything that Microsoft does. (If I'm put in charge of the asylums' IT, I'll make it a point to build our software around Vista -- then inmates can dream of escape . . .)

[WalterSkinner]

All Your Computers Are Belong To Us

..Gates knew it all along...

[Petronski]

Spyware.

[captain anode]

I'll stick with XP-PRO until it corrupts itself, and then maybe go to Xandros for $60. :)

I misplaced my Windows XP-PRO disk and product code so I should spend another $280 again. Registration is a one way street for MS.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The first major upgrade in five years...

Geez....I considered WinXP's SP2 to be a major upgrade.

[ShadowAce]

[rlmorel]

This is "A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection" by Peter Gutmann, University of Auckland

This is a striking read, and he appears to know what he is talking about. Anyone have any comments on this? It bears directly on this thread.

[Redcloak]

From the article...

When Microsoft introduced Windows 95 more than a decade ago, it adopted the Rolling Stones "Start Me Up" as its theme song. As millions of consumers contemplate the company's latest upgrade, the legal and technological restrictions may leave them singing "You Can't Always Get What You Want."

<snicker>

But seriously...

At this point, I'm just not seeing any compelling reasons to switch machines to Vista. First off, nothing we have in house qualifies as "Vista ready". We can't afford that kind of hardware bill. Also, I don't even want to think about moving old applications onto a new platform. We've still got software running on old NT boxes! We can't afford that kind of increased development cost.