The route I chose to take for this situation is rip images of all my CD/DVD's and store them on one of three 300gig hd's wich I keep nicely tucked away in staticproof bags and the little supports they come in. Then I take all my CD/DVD's and organise them by music/movie/software and put them in seperate boxes further organising them alphabetically in their respective box which gets stowed away. Then for whatever I need at that current moment be it a game that requires the CD (if I cant find a no-cd crack but then again I give up easily) I just burn to a CD/DVD and keep that out in those pesky jewel cases so I can actually read the label I write on it. If I beat a game, get bored with it, overwatch that DVD or the CD/DVD just gets to scratched and I cant be bothered to burn another one it just gets thrown out. Installing software I try to avoid burning a cd just to install it once but you get the idea, you have two backups one is digital for easy access and the other is the originals just incase.
That could be very true, but I assumed Microsoft would have some way of enforcing the "Green drivers only" idea after the computer has shipped as later in the same paragraph it says
Furthermore, because "Green" hardware can be re-rated as "Yellow" or "Red" in the event that problems arise, OEMs and device manufacturers will need to look after systems even after they have shipped.
I just assumed that Microsoft would have some way to force manufacturers to update their drivers in the event they drop a rating. Otherwise its entirely feasable for device manufacturers to just ignore the rating if that model no longer pulls in enough profit to warrent the resources required to go back to debug and fix an old driver. OEM's would also take the same sort of thing into consideration when deciding if they should just change the specs of that model or simply drop the Windows-logo certification of that model.
This article doesnt go into much detail about "Only drivers with a "Green" status can be used in computers that are Windows-logo certified" but what if I buy a OEM computer for some reason or another, its Windows-logo certified, and down the line one or more of the drivers it uses becomes "Yellow" or "Red". Now obviously the company who wrote the drivers arent going to be able to fix it instantaniously (unless perhaps they get an early warning from Microsoft) so does that meen those drivers on my computer at that time become unuseable and therefor not allowing me to use the hardware they "drive" untill they are 'fixed'? If so that could cause A LOT of problems really quickly not just for home users (yes i am aware that the "Home" version of Vista wont be affected by this) and for any company that buys OEM 'Windows-logo cerfified' computers to use as workstations. Anyone else thought of this or have an answer to this question?
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The route I chose to take for this situation is rip images of all my CD/DVD's and store them on one of three 300gig hd's wich I keep nicely tucked away in staticproof bags and the little supports they come in. Then I take all my CD/DVD's and organise them by music/movie/software and put them in seperate boxes further organising them alphabetically in their respective box which gets stowed away. Then for whatever I need at that current moment be it a game that requires the CD (if I cant find a no-cd crack but then again I give up easily) I just burn to a CD/DVD and keep that out in those pesky jewel cases so I can actually read the label I write on it. If I beat a game, get bored with it, overwatch that DVD or the CD/DVD just gets to scratched and I cant be bothered to burn another one it just gets thrown out. Installing software I try to avoid burning a cd just to install it once but you get the idea, you have two backups one is digital for easy access and the other is the originals just incase.
That could be very true, but I assumed Microsoft would have some way of enforcing the "Green drivers only" idea after the computer has shipped as later in the same paragraph it says Furthermore, because "Green" hardware can be re-rated as "Yellow" or "Red" in the event that problems arise, OEMs and device manufacturers will need to look after systems even after they have shipped. I just assumed that Microsoft would have some way to force manufacturers to update their drivers in the event they drop a rating. Otherwise its entirely feasable for device manufacturers to just ignore the rating if that model no longer pulls in enough profit to warrent the resources required to go back to debug and fix an old driver. OEM's would also take the same sort of thing into consideration when deciding if they should just change the specs of that model or simply drop the Windows-logo certification of that model.
This article doesnt go into much detail about "Only drivers with a "Green" status can be used in computers that are Windows-logo certified" but what if I buy a OEM computer for some reason or another, its Windows-logo certified, and down the line one or more of the drivers it uses becomes "Yellow" or "Red". Now obviously the company who wrote the drivers arent going to be able to fix it instantaniously (unless perhaps they get an early warning from Microsoft) so does that meen those drivers on my computer at that time become unuseable and therefor not allowing me to use the hardware they "drive" untill they are 'fixed'? If so that could cause A LOT of problems really quickly not just for home users (yes i am aware that the "Home" version of Vista wont be affected by this) and for any company that buys OEM 'Windows-logo cerfified' computers to use as workstations. Anyone else thought of this or have an answer to this question?