[goldstategop]

The entire DRM concept sucks. No more hacked ancient software you could have that's still useful. The entire idea of warez is histoire. Redmond is like the Borg Of The Computer Age: "Resistance Is Futile; You Will Be Assimilated."

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[Paul C. Jesup]

The entire DRM concept sucks. No more hacked ancient software you could have that's still useful. The entire idea of warez is histoire. Redmond is like the Borg Of The Computer Age: "Resistance Is Futile; You Will Be Assimilated."

Actually Slashdot.org is the borg, but that's another issue.

Do you realize the ****storm MS is going to create because of this. When a major virus/spyware hits Vista, MS's Vista DRM policy will prevent third party patching to protect viruses/spyware for at least month if not longer, compared to the day or two it takes for anti-virus/anti-spyware programers to catch up and create patches for their programs.

The word of mouth from consumers will hurts sales because everyone will learn none of their old games, programs, freeware , nor hardware work will with Vista.

Most people do not have 2 grand in cash to shell out for not just a new computer, but a monitor and new software.

Keep in mind that legacy compatiblity was a new draw for previous Windows OS's.

MS is making the exact same mistakes that IBM and Apple made in the 80's, and they are going to hurt themselves by it.

[Lx]

Which is yet another reason to keep using XP. No doubt they'll issue a new version of Office that won't run on XP to force the O/S upgrade. Hell, I'm still using Office 2000 on XP; it does everything I need to do.