The first of Vista's DRM mechanisms gets turned on this week.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/...icleId=9035478
Just a heads up
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The first of Vista's DRM mechanisms gets turned on this week.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/...icleId=9035478
Just a heads up
Good move I say :)
well, it certainly adds new levels of danger to your windows experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adam
I can imagine this will appeal to those people who enjoy base jumping or snake-handling
Well, why should I have to pay £100 to upgrade to Vista, okay £70 because I bought the OEM version, and others pirate it for free?
Its just not Cricket
cause it won't ever go wrong, will it?
Que?
go wrongQuote:
Originally Posted by Adam
wrongly label your copy as pirated and disable your computer
meh never - it will be fine :D
Maybe......
MS's validation service was knocked offline for 24 hours by a DDOS attack only last week...
all machines requesting their daily validation during the outage were labelled as pirated
up until now, you only got a balloon bubble saying your copy failed. Now, you'll get an unusable machine
not a great incentive for businesses who typically have a global licence key for all deployed machines
Out of interest what is your OS?
dual boot XP & DebianQuote:
Originally Posted by Adam
I'm with Ynot, I just don't trust Windows to be right. Now I'm even more definitely going to be dual-booting.
What's so good about Debian?
nothing, really - just happen to use itQuote:
Originally Posted by goldney
been thinking of giving Mandriva a whirl as well
It's a distribution of GNU/Linux, which means it's more powerful, flexible, stable, secure, fast, and productive than Microsoft Windows. Oh, and it never gets viruses or any malware for that matter and all the software is free.Quote:
Originally Posted by goldney
I think goldney meant compared to Windows ...Quote:
Originally Posted by Ynot