__/ [ arachnid ] on Sunday 24 December 2006 00:15 \__
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:34:33 -0700, Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:
>
>> "crippled Vista Home"
>> Not crippled at all.
>
> Yes it is. Microsoft has artificially (via EULA) removed the ability to
> run Vista Home in a virtual machine and then charges about $200 extra to
> grant you the right to run Vista in a VM. As I already pointed out, the
> ability to run on virtual hardware is inherent in software and isn't
> anything that Microsoft added.
>
> Multimedia capabilities are a necessary part of any modern OS, yet have
> been strategically removed from Vista Home Basic.
Acer: Vista Home Basic is a lemon
,----[ Quote ]
| Microsoft is effectively smuggling through a price hike for Windows
| Vista - by making the entry-level version so poor that no-one will
| want to use it. So says Jim Wong, senior veep at Acer, the world's
| number four PC maker, who told UK hack Jon Honeyball: "The new
| [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel
| it at all. There's no [Aero] graphics, no Media Center, no
| remote control."
`----
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/27/acer_slams_vista_home_basic/
>> You can not explain how it is crippled because it is not. Simply showing
>> a feature you feel you need which is not in Home does not make Home
>> crippled.
>
> Virtual Machine technology is something most home users need. It provides
> an easy way to separate user accounts, to cleanly separate Internet
> activities from private records, and to quickly try out new things without
> putting your primary installation at risk. If Microsoft really cared about
> their users' security they'd be encouraging, rather than discouraging, the
> use of VM technology.
>
>> It it does not meet your needs, buy something that does. The home
>> versions of Vista have their purpose and most home users will be glad to
>> get Vista cheaper because features they do not need are not included.
>
> Their purpose is to give consumers a barely usable OS and then charge them
> to add the features they're likely to need.
DRM - Defective by design.
Vista - Incomplete by design.
Windows - insecure by design <Washington Post>.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A34978-2003Aug23?language=printer
Microsoft - unethical/aggressive by design.
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