Richard Crowley
December 21st 07, 05:22 AM
"TheFlaggman" wrote...
> "Richard Crowley" 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.
Thanks for the warning. It strentghens my resolve to avoid
Vista for as long as possible. Maybe long enough to dump
Microsoft altogether in favor of Linux or Apple.
OTOH, I know of no more counter-intuitive and USER-
VICIOUS application than iTunes. I've lost track of the
number of iPods I've recovered for people when iTunes
suddenly decided to remove all their content. Various
fruit people have claimed that it is possible to turn off
this objectionable behavior, but none have ever explained
exactly how to do it. (Nor have they adequately explained
why it is set up that way by default.)
> "Richard Crowley" 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.
Thanks for the warning. It strentghens my resolve to avoid
Vista for as long as possible. Maybe long enough to dump
Microsoft altogether in favor of Linux or Apple.
OTOH, I know of no more counter-intuitive and USER-
VICIOUS application than iTunes. I've lost track of the
number of iPods I've recovered for people when iTunes
suddenly decided to remove all their content. Various
fruit people have claimed that it is possible to turn off
this objectionable behavior, but none have ever explained
exactly how to do it. (Nor have they adequately explained
why it is set up that way by default.)