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Re: [News] [Rival] Vista 7 Not Worth the Upgrade, Says Associated Press

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____/ JeffM on Wednesday 21 Oct 2009 17:35 : \____

> High Plains Thumper wrote:
>>When Microsoft has the opportunity
>>to make Vista a very secure operating system,
>>what did they focus on instead?
>>Catering to the entertainment industry
>>and focusing on potential for user digital media abuse.
> 
> Actually, "catering" is the wrong word.
> The DRM is M$ technology.
> What M$ was hoping is that after they included it,
> MAFIAA would license it on their end.  Didn't happen.
> Now every byte gets parsed for DRM
> --even though it's completely wasted effort/cycles.

Gates wrote some memos advocating DRM for almost a decade. It's in
Comes vs Microsoft pile of exhibits.

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