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[News] Special Kind of DRM 'Fun' in Microsoft Windows

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My thoughts on “Virtual XP Mode” nonsense and the future for XP users.

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| Microsoft has obviously utterly failed to get 63% of Windows users (as of 
| April 2009’s stats) to “upgrade to Windows Vista from XP. 
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| [...]
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| If Microsoft wasn’t so damned insistent on this DRM nonsense, then they would 
| have just had a library where they exported XP and WIndows 2000 functions and 
| registry entries, and used a compatibility shim to redirect API calls and 
| registry ops. That would have been less than 1% performance penalty, and they 
| have everything they need to do that with WOW64 anyway.    
| 
| AGGGGGHH!!!!!
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http://izanbardprince.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/my-thoughts-on-virtual-xp-mode-nonsense-and-the-future-for-xp-users/
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