"Hell, if popping a pill could give one the effect of an eidetic memory, it would revolutionize everything. Who cares how hard something is to use? Just read the manual. Once. "
You'd have to wait for (more than) half the technical writers of the world to crack a few books first. Have you seen the quality of manuals lately?
This has to be aimed at companies who love 'bleeding edge'.
It would not be a trivial thing to have 'copy control technology in the OS' as the article puts it. Too complicated, too much potential negative user experience, buy-in would take too long, and it's nowhere near bullet-proof.
Most large-scale shops have a 3- to 5-year HW upgrade/replacement cycle, never mind the many more smaller shops (and home users) that do it on an ad-hoc and even less frequent basis. In other words, complete changeover will happen at a glacial pace.
Putting some sort of 'hardware handshake' will have to take into account not only mobo chipsets, but all the add-on PCI cards out there. And how do they successfully handle hubs? I could easily see a hub that could be jerry-rigged to handle most simple hardware handshakes that MS could come up with.
Another thing that's just bound to happen, with all the different microcontroller code out there: Older equipment that hangs when the OS sends the handshake.
No, there are just too many ways for this to bite MS if this were turned on for everyone. It's gotta be for the places that want total lockdown.
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"Hell, if popping a pill could give one the effect of an eidetic memory, it would revolutionize everything. Who cares how hard something is to use? Just read the manual. Once. "
You'd have to wait for (more than) half the technical writers of the world to crack a few books first. Have you seen the quality of manuals lately?
This has to be aimed at companies who love 'bleeding edge'. It would not be a trivial thing to have 'copy control technology in the OS' as the article puts it. Too complicated, too much potential negative user experience, buy-in would take too long, and it's nowhere near bullet-proof. Most large-scale shops have a 3- to 5-year HW upgrade/replacement cycle, never mind the many more smaller shops (and home users) that do it on an ad-hoc and even less frequent basis. In other words, complete changeover will happen at a glacial pace. Putting some sort of 'hardware handshake' will have to take into account not only mobo chipsets, but all the add-on PCI cards out there. And how do they successfully handle hubs? I could easily see a hub that could be jerry-rigged to handle most simple hardware handshakes that MS could come up with. Another thing that's just bound to happen, with all the different microcontroller code out there: Older equipment that hangs when the OS sends the handshake. No, there are just too many ways for this to bite MS if this were turned on for everyone. It's gotta be for the places that want total lockdown.