Windows Vista : the Big Liability

Various flavors of Windows run on 96% of the World PCs. The new Vista will be a step backward and then a step forward. Vista will surprise you with its new level of User Interface and you will be even surprised when your PC is hardly good in running Vista and runs nothing else. Vista’s new technology goes a long way in protecting your PC against non-copyrighted material and deteriorates performance; and unless you have the right hardware and the support from the manufacturers of a product, you may not be able to enjoy what you just bought. The Copyright protection technology (DRM-Digital Rights Management) built into Vista has almost like self-crippling effects; as the technology continuously watches every move and measure of your activities while using the system. We will be paying for extra hardware improvements only to satisfy the nemesis that will haunt us for the use, or even purchase. Microsoft accepts that audio and video qualities can be intentionally downgraded if media is not copyrighted and may even not play. Customers using Vista are also facing problems connecting to the net. Its security is very good but it is too user interactive and depends on the User’s choices to allow a program, connection, registry change to work. Many users may not be aware of the correct choices, and many still will find it irritating. The idea is to shift the responsibility on to the Users; seems very sly to me. The move of supporting DRM into Vista is basically to drive itself into getting a better share of the entertainment market. It will get the faith and share of revenues from the likes of Sony and Warner Bros. All thanks to DRM. Sony gradually will realizes that the idea wouldn’t do any good, as people will find it increasingly hard to be able to meet all specifications to enjoy premium content; and sales will dip. Sony will then nicely ask Windows to remove it…and Windows will certainly agree. So before you buy, just observe that Vista packaging does not have all its corners equally taken care of.