KDE is just an application that runs atop the the X windowing system which runs atop the OS. Linux is a package of applications including the kernel, X, KDE, utilities, applications, etc.
KDE made the wrong choice on releasing their stuff that way (and they paid for it with harsh criticism). Even so, it wasn't a required part of the OS. Under Linux people have their choice of desktop managers.
Your example was not a good example and demonstrates a lack of knowledge about Linux and KDE.
That's a wikipedia article and not an official announcement from the folks at KDE. Remember, wikipedia can have anyone edit that. Any note written in that could easily have been added as a revision when they found out about all the negative feedback they were getting--or rather, even, someone else's opinion of it and not representative of KDE at all.
I read the original release and it didn't limit it to development. They went so far as to explain which distros would have packages and when. Nothing I read indicated it was a development release. This doesn't mean they didn't revise it when they found out all the negative feedback they were getting.
But, KDE 4.2 is so much better. I might even consider making it my default desktop--though I do dislike the slowness, especially of the window resize. They need a resize applet for their compositing manager just like compiz has.
He never said disaster. He just indicated he wasn't happy and chose to go to gnome. He also said he had hopes for KDE 4.2 and might go back if it turned out to be promising.
This KDE guy is using hindsight to explain what they did. I don't believe him. They messed up. Even remotely considering a little plasmoid as the desktop was a total joke. I used Linux day in and day out and anything without a traditional desktop metaphor would have been a joke--the KDE guys were trying to redefine against the face of what we all wanted.
I know KDE 4.2 has the option to use a traditional desktop, but you can see by them setting the dinky plasmoid as default that they still believe in their vision. Wrong!
Again, hindsight is the better part of valor. These guys are revising their response to fit what they saw happen, because we here will accept anything, because we know there are thousands (or millions) of opinions that can be voice on the matter.
"The best" is subjective. Though I use Firefox for everything browsing on 3 different platforms I know that others don't consider it to be the best.
What they need to do (and it is easily within the EU's power, in the EU) would be to force Microsoft to split up into multiple companies and not allow any cooperation between them and set a limit of say 30-50 years before they could even consider it.
That would bring back competition and stability to the market.
You are absolutely correct. The damage is done and it is hard to get people to change. That's why it is important that all the alternatives constantly be pushed out in front of everyone. If you are a consumer and only hear Microsoft this or Microsoft that then people will stay with Microsoft for all this and that.
But if you keep pushing out there Linux this and Mac that and Mac this and Linux that this brings choices to the forefront.
But the damage is done. Microsoft knew perfectly well what it was doing and how much harm it was creating. It knew how people reacted to change and the amount of time and effort they had to invest into learning a piece of software.
This is tragic. It is almost an impossibility. If it had been only in the US we might have had a near impossible problem but being that it is world-wide it is a mountain so high it is unsurmountable.
I'm not saying this is a good thing. I'm saying it is so bad that the choice is made for the consumer before they even consider it. But, as far as the browser goes that's not an insurmountable problem. It can easily be fixed given enough time, but we also have to consider that the juggernaut that drove us into the ground as far as choice goes will continue to pursue those tactics which deny choice. It will be two steps forward and one step back as we inch toward trying to give the consumer a choice.
I can't imagine how poorly the some of the Microsoft employees must feel about this, knowing that they are working for a company that has had such a negative impact on the software industry.
Even though you create consistency through single sourcing things it bad that no competition is available to improve things. Things have been dying for a long time. I would judge, after watching the industry from before Microsoft was so dominant, that we would have had a software market 10 times the size it is today had this not occurred.
Using that Windows Monopoly to force other products on the consumer is very very wrong and it has hurt so many companies and has immeasurably damaged our economy and that of the world in untold ways.
It's a step in the wrong direction as far as the desktop goes. Their desktop metaphor is terrible. Users have desktops and large monitors for a reason. They want sprawling desktops that they can organize and use according to their habit. Limiting us to a tiny box which doesn't in anyway resemble a desktop (rather it resembles an inbox on a desktop) is the wrong thing to do. KDE4 won't gain acceptance in any significant way till they put the desktop metaphor back to what we had before.
I was never a fan of gnome. I have always been a fan of features, as long as they are useful and complete. That said, I have not had problems using nautilus, ever...well, sorry, I guess I have to admit some show stopping issues. Such as, copying large files and a lot of files over the network. You could actually end up not copying and never receive an error, then end up deleting the original source--thus deleting your only good copy.
I haven't seen that in a long time tho. They probably worked it out.
TCO isn't defined by Microsoft. Microsoft wants to define everything so everyone does it their way. TCO is just that Total Cost of Ownership. That means that you don't exclude Microsoft baggage to make it's TCO seem better.
In the long run Linux's TCO is far better than Microsoft's "any run" TCO.
That site is a Microsoft site full of inaccuracies and in many cases total baldfaced lies.
He said the gnome guys are thinking about a major reworking so he may end up switching back to KDE sooner than later. But that all really has to do with how fast they implement and what they implement.
Some might disagree but we have desktop metaphors on computers for a reason. When I use my computer I put things on the desktop, move them around, arrange them to my liking and habit. Without a true desktop metaphor I can't do that. KDE4 doesn't give me a true desktop metaphor.
KDE4 is implemented messy. They spent so much time on their start menu that they lost all sight of the desktop. The start menu needs revising even after all their work.
Putting my desktop in a tiny Window is just crazy. I have a large screen monitor for a reason.
Having such a conflict with compiz and the native compositing manager in KDE4 harms acceptance. Nothing like having my desktop slowed down because KDE won't give way to Compiz when it is installed (and I mean give way all the way).
Without a regular desktop metaphor KDE4 will continue to fail.
intelpp.sys should be renamed to remove the 7e error on an HP/Compaq computer with an AMD processor. Renaming that file will bring you back to normal. It is both HP and Microsoft's fault and though known not well known.
rename the intelppm.sys and reboot. Use recovery console to do this or boot with a Ubuntu Live CD and mount the NTFS file system and rename that way.
You most likely have a component failure. Most often cause by the HDD. I'd test it out with the manufacturers diagnostic software, though those fail to identify a problem about 30% of the time (they indicate no problems when there are problems). I'd test with memtst and see if it results in problems. Remove extra RAM (have just enough to make the computer work (4 gigs on a 32 or 64bit system?).
Software can cause this behavior too. Though it really makes no sense to chase a software problem without first testing the hardware and gaining confidence in it.
Could be you have Norton on there. Could be you have AOL on there. Both of those two products can have problems which result in slowed performance, noticeably slowed. Both McAfee and Norton firewalls can cause all sorts of havoc even tho one day they just worked.
CPU overheating is easy to check and with today's systems it is rare that that will be the contributing factor, especially if nothing happened to trigger it and it was running well before. You'd have noticed a heat problem long ago. Heat issues are generally a result of poorly placed HSF and that would be known soon after you began using the computer on a regular basis.
I've seen a reset of the BIOS to defaults resolve some performance issues, and I've seen the motherboard itself be the cause (CPU, memory, etc replaced and it still goes slow--in fact, I have two motherboards in my shop now that were replaced as a result of that).
Processor, Video card, motherboard, RAM, HDD all can contribute to this (be the cause). Software too, such as malware. Registry errors--extremely common under windows--in the wrong section can cause it. Registry files (hives) being in the location of the HDD where you are developing bad sectors can cause it. Try copying the registry files and rename them. Don't delete the old one. Probably have to do this with your drive as a second drive in another system so you can do the rename properly (copy the files, rename the original hive files to something else, rename the copied files to the new hive files).
Registry fixers don't fix anything. No software today, that I have ever seen, actually fixes a damaged registry. Yeah, some will examine and find entries, etc that are out of line with files, and settings, but that's with an actual working registry. If the registry is damaged no program that I know of can actually fix it.
Scan the computer for malware (yeah, I know you have already) but do it with the HDD in another computer as a second drive.
Check out subinacl from Microsoft. Download that program and the reset.cmd file. Install and run reset. Read about it first before you do so so you understand what's happening.
There are such things as rootkits. The same company that does process explorer also provides a rootkit revealer. But to answer your question just because something is running as a service doesn't mean it will get by the antivirus and anti-malware products you are using.
Spiking at random intervals is normal.
The best friend of an ailing computer is another computer where you can boot the computer with that drive as a second drive. That's a good piece of advice that will save you tons of time in the future.
If you've ever read from an encyclopedia you'll note that they are rather limited in their scope and sometimes have little usefulness in what they do say.
With Wikipedia the content grows at a strong pace, albeit sometimes with inaccuracies.
Britannica is a long way off from creating a solid competitive product in today's world of the WWW.
MS terminating 5,000 employees is akin to skin cells flaking off Bill Gates ass. They have so many employees world-wide that 5,000 will be almost unnoticeable. Doesn't mean those people that are loosing their jobs aren't harmed, but for Microsoft 5,000 is nothing.
They can let that many go by terminating temporary staff.
I don't know who Gutmann is and I have no idea what he's done to take away your trust. And I don't care.
Prior to Vista we had XP, Win2k, ME, 98, 95, 3.1, etc. None of these had this shameless DRM at the heart of the OS. Putting it in was a choice. Not only that it was a bad choice. Microsoft expected to be able to grab revenue from content creators by licensing them the DRM technology. What this meant was that any content created for the Windows system wouldn't work on any other, such as Mac OSX or Linux. This was because the system that maintained the DRM was at the heart of the OS. That's the only reason why they implemented it; as a revenue stream from the content creators and a way to lock in the consumer to Windows due to a committment to the DRM'd technology adopted by the content creators. If you bought $3,000 a year in DRM'd content that ran only on Windows and in 5 years decided you were unhappy with Microsoft you would have to choose--loose the content or stay with Microsoft.
Microsoft was trying to do with all other content exactly what Apple had done with the iPod. In case you don't understand it that content purchased for the iPod that is DRM'd won't play on any other mobile player other than the iPod. Though with the advent of iTunes for Windows it can be played on Windows PCs. But, it can't be played on any other OS without hacks.
If you can look at the revenue stream Apple has from the DRM'd content then you can see how much more that revenue stream would have been for all other content. And no, Microsft had no intent of licensing it to other platforms.
The only fly in their ointment was that just at precisely the time that Vista was being released there was an uproar over DRM. Ever wonder why? It was due to the fact that people understood that DRM content was bad and that lock in technologies were bad and that Microsoft was taking advantage of it's position in OSes to gain another position in DRM'd content.
So, we can easily rebut your comments as being self centered because you 1) don't like who he sources (which others should be suspect of your motive) and 2) you don't know the history of the development of Vista nor of the release timeframe which lead to vendors dropping DRM content (or at least fighting it to the point it isn't discussed much any more). We can also tell that you make reference as such that you believe that Microsoft had no choice but to add DRM to the heart of the OS and that you mislead without stating fact, how they are doing it.
On that last part, we already know that other OSes don't have DRM at the heart and we know that it isn't necessary for the consumer as the consumer is almost always hurt by DRM. Those that want to copy content illegally can.
What you are also trying to say is that if it wasn't for Microsoft implementing the DRM technology in Vista no one would be able to actually view their HD content. Well, this is patently false. HD content can be accessed already on products without DRM being at the heart of it. You are also saying that this is best for the customer because it is best for the content creators. That itself is patently false.
Microsoft with 47+ programs collect information about your activities and sends that back to their servers. They claim they don't keep the info and they claim they collect no identifying information. But this isn't true. They may not keep the masses of information that doesn't yield a positive for violation but they do keep that which they believe is. They also send your IP address and the date and time, which is precisely the way that the RIAA used to identify people.
This is akin to having Walmart show up every Sunday morning demanding to go through your stuff and then after searching and finding that you are valid they toss out the paperwork of their visit. You wouldn't let Walmart in, you wouldn't even let the police in, so why would you even consider letting Microsoft it.
First, you didn't take the time to investigate nor did you disprove a
Not my fault you can't read. Are you not paying attention or do you just lack the ability to actually understand what is written? Have you never been a member of a family where the father was in the military and he treated his family/kids in a militaristic fashion? How about after he was out of the military? Have you not seen people act in a militaristic fashion to get them to do something? Many businesses work in the same way.
What I wrote is correct and accurate and long standing knowledge, from even before Vista was released. It isn't my fault you are so naive that you can't get out from under your rock and read up on it.
Of course there are 47+ programs and these don't count the WGA/WGN. There are 20+ more that I didn't reference. Microsoft acknowledges this and has admitted to it. It isn't possible to turn those programs off without disabling Vista near completely. Even Microsoft admits that.
As far as the playing.mp3 files and copying other files over your local network goes, this is also a long standing fact that Microsoft admitted to.
As far as the degradation of HD content playback due to suspected copyright violation (of anything being played back) that has also been acknowledged by Microsoft. When are you going to get your ass up and look around you?
I'm not creating FUD. I'm not creating false rumor. These are there and they are well known. You just didn't or wouldn't take the time to learn about them or you are so easily duped that you think it is OK for it to happen.
Give me a break. I fix computers for a living. There's nothing troll like about my response. Vista is and was that bad. I have to fix it every day. Ars was wrong then and is wrong now.
There are 47+ programs in Vista that collect information and sends it back to Microsoft and that information includes your IP and the date/time. Microsoft militarily drafted the hardware manufacturers denying them certification if they didn't implement the hardware circuitry to verify that the DRM wasn't being tampered with, even if we the consumer never wanted to purchase such a product. Microsoft took to degrading video content whenver they felt that certain content being played was not valid copyright and this was proven as fact by numerous sources such as the Doctor that looked at high rez x-ray photos for a living and found the images were degraded when he played an MP3 file. It was further proven that when you played an MP3 file that the bandwidth for copying files over even your local network was seriously degraded.
There are serious issues that exist today.
I have 3 machines that have vista on them and several with XP and several with Linux. I am not trolling. I was a bit lazy to not push out my reasons why I believe ARS to be wrong--and it is that they are wrong.
Vista was well known as a pig with lipstick. Win7 is just Vista with a different taskbar and some other changes. They could easily have rolled that out as a patch to Vista instead of trying to siphon off more money from the public.
Microsoft is not innocent, even after being convicted in the US as a criminal monopolist and having the individual states in the US conclude the same. The EU has also found Microsoft a monopolist and that they have acted in a criminal way, even so much as to recently, within the past week, announce that the integration of IE into the OS is anti-competitive and criminal.
So, please, get control of yourself and stop acting like anything being written that disagrees with ARS is a troll.
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KDE is just an application that runs atop the the X windowing system which runs atop the OS. Linux is a package of applications including the kernel, X, KDE, utilities, applications, etc.
KDE made the wrong choice on releasing their stuff that way (and they paid for it with harsh criticism). Even so, it wasn't a required part of the OS. Under Linux people have their choice of desktop managers.
Your example was not a good example and demonstrates a lack of knowledge about Linux and KDE.
That's a wikipedia article and not an official announcement from the folks at KDE. Remember, wikipedia can have anyone edit that. Any note written in that could easily have been added as a revision when they found out about all the negative feedback they were getting--or rather, even, someone else's opinion of it and not representative of KDE at all.
I read the original release and it didn't limit it to development. They went so far as to explain which distros would have packages and when. Nothing I read indicated it was a development release. This doesn't mean they didn't revise it when they found out all the negative feedback they were getting.
But, KDE 4.2 is so much better. I might even consider making it my default desktop--though I do dislike the slowness, especially of the window resize. They need a resize applet for their compositing manager just like compiz has.
He never said disaster. He just indicated he wasn't happy and chose to go to gnome. He also said he had hopes for KDE 4.2 and might go back if it turned out to be promising.
Well said.
This KDE guy is using hindsight to explain what they did. I don't believe him. They messed up. Even remotely considering a little plasmoid as the desktop was a total joke. I used Linux day in and day out and anything without a traditional desktop metaphor would have been a joke--the KDE guys were trying to redefine against the face of what we all wanted.
I know KDE 4.2 has the option to use a traditional desktop, but you can see by them setting the dinky plasmoid as default that they still believe in their vision. Wrong!
Again, hindsight is the better part of valor. These guys are revising their response to fit what they saw happen, because we here will accept anything, because we know there are thousands (or millions) of opinions that can be voice on the matter.
It is about fixing things. It has nothing to do with being spiteful.
"The best" is subjective. Though I use Firefox for everything browsing on 3 different platforms I know that others don't consider it to be the best.
What they need to do (and it is easily within the EU's power, in the EU) would be to force Microsoft to split up into multiple companies and not allow any cooperation between them and set a limit of say 30-50 years before they could even consider it.
That would bring back competition and stability to the market.
You are absolutely correct. The damage is done and it is hard to get people to change. That's why it is important that all the alternatives constantly be pushed out in front of everyone. If you are a consumer and only hear Microsoft this or Microsoft that then people will stay with Microsoft for all this and that.
But if you keep pushing out there Linux this and Mac that and Mac this and Linux that this brings choices to the forefront.
But the damage is done. Microsoft knew perfectly well what it was doing and how much harm it was creating. It knew how people reacted to change and the amount of time and effort they had to invest into learning a piece of software.
This is tragic. It is almost an impossibility. If it had been only in the US we might have had a near impossible problem but being that it is world-wide it is a mountain so high it is unsurmountable.
I'm not saying this is a good thing. I'm saying it is so bad that the choice is made for the consumer before they even consider it. But, as far as the browser goes that's not an insurmountable problem. It can easily be fixed given enough time, but we also have to consider that the juggernaut that drove us into the ground as far as choice goes will continue to pursue those tactics which deny choice. It will be two steps forward and one step back as we inch toward trying to give the consumer a choice.
I can't imagine how poorly the some of the Microsoft employees must feel about this, knowing that they are working for a company that has had such a negative impact on the software industry.
Even though you create consistency through single sourcing things it bad that no competition is available to improve things. Things have been dying for a long time. I would judge, after watching the industry from before Microsoft was so dominant, that we would have had a software market 10 times the size it is today had this not occurred.
Using that Windows Monopoly to force other products on the consumer is very very wrong and it has hurt so many companies and has immeasurably damaged our economy and that of the world in untold ways.
You require firefox and then you'll require every other. Of course, we all know that, probably every other post states it in this thread, I'm sure.
What a joke. You don't build competition by forcing people to use another product.
The only solution is to have Microsoft remove IE from Windows completely.
Look at all those terminal windows!
It's a step in the wrong direction as far as the desktop goes. Their desktop metaphor is terrible. Users have desktops and large monitors for a reason. They want sprawling desktops that they can organize and use according to their habit. Limiting us to a tiny box which doesn't in anyway resemble a desktop (rather it resembles an inbox on a desktop) is the wrong thing to do. KDE4 won't gain acceptance in any significant way till they put the desktop metaphor back to what we had before.
I was never a fan of gnome. I have always been a fan of features, as long as they are useful and complete. That said, I have not had problems using nautilus, ever...well, sorry, I guess I have to admit some show stopping issues. Such as, copying large files and a lot of files over the network. You could actually end up not copying and never receive an error, then end up deleting the original source--thus deleting your only good copy.
I haven't seen that in a long time tho. They probably worked it out.
TCO isn't defined by Microsoft. Microsoft wants to define everything so everyone does it their way. TCO is just that Total Cost of Ownership. That means that you don't exclude Microsoft baggage to make it's TCO seem better.
In the long run Linux's TCO is far better than Microsoft's "any run" TCO.
That site is a Microsoft site full of inaccuracies and in many cases total baldfaced lies.
He said the gnome guys are thinking about a major reworking so he may end up switching back to KDE sooner than later. But that all really has to do with how fast they implement and what they implement.
Some might disagree but we have desktop metaphors on computers for a reason. When I use my computer I put things on the desktop, move them around, arrange them to my liking and habit. Without a true desktop metaphor I can't do that. KDE4 doesn't give me a true desktop metaphor.
KDE4 is implemented messy. They spent so much time on their start menu that they lost all sight of the desktop. The start menu needs revising even after all their work.
Putting my desktop in a tiny Window is just crazy. I have a large screen monitor for a reason.
Having such a conflict with compiz and the native compositing manager in KDE4 harms acceptance. Nothing like having my desktop slowed down because KDE won't give way to Compiz when it is installed (and I mean give way all the way).
Without a regular desktop metaphor KDE4 will continue to fail.
intelpp.sys should be renamed to remove the 7e error on an HP/Compaq computer with an AMD processor. Renaming that file will bring you back to normal. It is both HP and Microsoft's fault and though known not well known.
rename the intelppm.sys and reboot. Use recovery console to do this or boot with a Ubuntu Live CD and mount the NTFS file system and rename that way.
You most likely have a component failure. Most often cause by the HDD. I'd test it out with the manufacturers diagnostic software, though those fail to identify a problem about 30% of the time (they indicate no problems when there are problems). I'd test with memtst and see if it results in problems. Remove extra RAM (have just enough to make the computer work (4 gigs on a 32 or 64bit system?).
Software can cause this behavior too. Though it really makes no sense to chase a software problem without first testing the hardware and gaining confidence in it.
Could be you have Norton on there. Could be you have AOL on there. Both of those two products can have problems which result in slowed performance, noticeably slowed. Both McAfee and Norton firewalls can cause all sorts of havoc even tho one day they just worked.
CPU overheating is easy to check and with today's systems it is rare that that will be the contributing factor, especially if nothing happened to trigger it and it was running well before. You'd have noticed a heat problem long ago. Heat issues are generally a result of poorly placed HSF and that would be known soon after you began using the computer on a regular basis.
I've seen a reset of the BIOS to defaults resolve some performance issues, and I've seen the motherboard itself be the cause (CPU, memory, etc replaced and it still goes slow--in fact, I have two motherboards in my shop now that were replaced as a result of that).
Processor, Video card, motherboard, RAM, HDD all can contribute to this (be the cause). Software too, such as malware. Registry errors--extremely common under windows--in the wrong section can cause it. Registry files (hives) being in the location of the HDD where you are developing bad sectors can cause it. Try copying the registry files and rename them. Don't delete the old one. Probably have to do this with your drive as a second drive in another system so you can do the rename properly (copy the files, rename the original hive files to something else, rename the copied files to the new hive files).
Registry fixers don't fix anything. No software today, that I have ever seen, actually fixes a damaged registry. Yeah, some will examine and find entries, etc that are out of line with files, and settings, but that's with an actual working registry. If the registry is damaged no program that I know of can actually fix it.
Scan the computer for malware (yeah, I know you have already) but do it with the HDD in another computer as a second drive.
Check out subinacl from Microsoft. Download that program and the reset.cmd file. Install and run reset. Read about it first before you do so so you understand what's happening.
There are such things as rootkits. The same company that does process explorer also provides a rootkit revealer. But to answer your question just because something is running as a service doesn't mean it will get by the antivirus and anti-malware products you are using.
Spiking at random intervals is normal.
The best friend of an ailing computer is another computer where you can boot the computer with that drive as a second drive. That's a good piece of advice that will save you tons of time in the future.
Lol, that's pretty funny seeing as both are malware. Yeah, I know you know. Others might not.
If you've ever read from an encyclopedia you'll note that they are rather limited in their scope and sometimes have little usefulness in what they do say.
With Wikipedia the content grows at a strong pace, albeit sometimes with inaccuracies.
Britannica is a long way off from creating a solid competitive product in today's world of the WWW.
MS terminating 5,000 employees is akin to skin cells flaking off Bill Gates ass. They have so many employees world-wide that 5,000 will be almost unnoticeable. Doesn't mean those people that are loosing their jobs aren't harmed, but for Microsoft 5,000 is nothing.
They can let that many go by terminating temporary staff.
Got to be pretty dumb to swallow that one.
I don't know who Gutmann is and I have no idea what he's done to take away your trust. And I don't care.
Prior to Vista we had XP, Win2k, ME, 98, 95, 3.1, etc. None of these had this shameless DRM at the heart of the OS. Putting it in was a choice. Not only that it was a bad choice. Microsoft expected to be able to grab revenue from content creators by licensing them the DRM technology. What this meant was that any content created for the Windows system wouldn't work on any other, such as Mac OSX or Linux. This was because the system that maintained the DRM was at the heart of the OS. That's the only reason why they implemented it; as a revenue stream from the content creators and a way to lock in the consumer to Windows due to a committment to the DRM'd technology adopted by the content creators. If you bought $3,000 a year in DRM'd content that ran only on Windows and in 5 years decided you were unhappy with Microsoft you would have to choose--loose the content or stay with Microsoft.
Microsoft was trying to do with all other content exactly what Apple had done with the iPod. In case you don't understand it that content purchased for the iPod that is DRM'd won't play on any other mobile player other than the iPod. Though with the advent of iTunes for Windows it can be played on Windows PCs. But, it can't be played on any other OS without hacks.
If you can look at the revenue stream Apple has from the DRM'd content then you can see how much more that revenue stream would have been for all other content. And no, Microsft had no intent of licensing it to other platforms.
The only fly in their ointment was that just at precisely the time that Vista was being released there was an uproar over DRM. Ever wonder why? It was due to the fact that people understood that DRM content was bad and that lock in technologies were bad and that Microsoft was taking advantage of it's position in OSes to gain another position in DRM'd content.
So, we can easily rebut your comments as being self centered because you 1) don't like who he sources (which others should be suspect of your motive) and 2) you don't know the history of the development of Vista nor of the release timeframe which lead to vendors dropping DRM content (or at least fighting it to the point it isn't discussed much any more). We can also tell that you make reference as such that you believe that Microsoft had no choice but to add DRM to the heart of the OS and that you mislead without stating fact, how they are doing it.
On that last part, we already know that other OSes don't have DRM at the heart and we know that it isn't necessary for the consumer as the consumer is almost always hurt by DRM. Those that want to copy content illegally can.
What you are also trying to say is that if it wasn't for Microsoft implementing the DRM technology in Vista no one would be able to actually view their HD content. Well, this is patently false. HD content can be accessed already on products without DRM being at the heart of it. You are also saying that this is best for the customer because it is best for the content creators. That itself is patently false.
Microsoft with 47+ programs collect information about your activities and sends that back to their servers. They claim they don't keep the info and they claim they collect no identifying information. But this isn't true. They may not keep the masses of information that doesn't yield a positive for violation but they do keep that which they believe is. They also send your IP address and the date and time, which is precisely the way that the RIAA used to identify people.
This is akin to having Walmart show up every Sunday morning demanding to go through your stuff and then after searching and finding that you are valid they toss out the paperwork of their visit. You wouldn't let Walmart in, you wouldn't even let the police in, so why would you even consider letting Microsoft it.
First, you didn't take the time to investigate nor did you disprove a
Not my fault you can't read. Are you not paying attention or do you just lack the ability to actually understand what is written? Have you never been a member of a family where the father was in the military and he treated his family/kids in a militaristic fashion? How about after he was out of the military? Have you not seen people act in a militaristic fashion to get them to do something? Many businesses work in the same way.
What I wrote is correct and accurate and long standing knowledge, from even before Vista was released. It isn't my fault you are so naive that you can't get out from under your rock and read up on it.
Of course there are 47+ programs and these don't count the WGA/WGN. There are 20+ more that I didn't reference. Microsoft acknowledges this and has admitted to it. It isn't possible to turn those programs off without disabling Vista near completely. Even Microsoft admits that.
As far as the playing .mp3 files and copying other files over your local network goes, this is also a long standing fact that Microsoft admitted to.
As far as the degradation of HD content playback due to suspected copyright violation (of anything being played back) that has also been acknowledged by Microsoft. When are you going to get your ass up and look around you?
I'm not creating FUD. I'm not creating false rumor. These are there and they are well known. You just didn't or wouldn't take the time to learn about them or you are so easily duped that you think it is OK for it to happen.
Give me a break. I fix computers for a living. There's nothing troll like about my response. Vista is and was that bad. I have to fix it every day. Ars was wrong then and is wrong now.
There are 47+ programs in Vista that collect information and sends it back to Microsoft and that information includes your IP and the date/time. Microsoft militarily drafted the hardware manufacturers denying them certification if they didn't implement the hardware circuitry to verify that the DRM wasn't being tampered with, even if we the consumer never wanted to purchase such a product. Microsoft took to degrading video content whenver they felt that certain content being played was not valid copyright and this was proven as fact by numerous sources such as the Doctor that looked at high rez x-ray photos for a living and found the images were degraded when he played an MP3 file. It was further proven that when you played an MP3 file that the bandwidth for copying files over even your local network was seriously degraded.
There are serious issues that exist today.
I have 3 machines that have vista on them and several with XP and several with Linux. I am not trolling. I was a bit lazy to not push out my reasons why I believe ARS to be wrong--and it is that they are wrong.
Vista was well known as a pig with lipstick. Win7 is just Vista with a different taskbar and some other changes. They could easily have rolled that out as a patch to Vista instead of trying to siphon off more money from the public.
Microsoft is not innocent, even after being convicted in the US as a criminal monopolist and having the individual states in the US conclude the same. The EU has also found Microsoft a monopolist and that they have acted in a criminal way, even so much as to recently, within the past week, announce that the integration of IE into the OS is anti-competitive and criminal.
So, please, get control of yourself and stop acting like anything being written that disagrees with ARS is a troll.