43 A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
Wednesday 31st January, 2007
This is a real eye-opener, a detailed analysis of Vista's DRM infection. The article is quite long, so you might be tempted to think, "Ah, forget it!" Before you dismiss it, have a quick look at the more important section titles:
- Disabling of Functionality
- Indirect Disabling of Functionality
- Decreased Playback Quality
- Elimination of Open-source Hardware Support
- Elimination of Unified Drivers
- Denial-of-Service via Driver/Device Revocation
- Decreased System Reliability
- Increased Hardware Costs
- Increased Cost due to Requirement to License Unnecessary Third-party IP
- Unnecessary CPU Resource Consumption
- Unnecessary Device Resource Consumption
Believe me, if you intend to purchase Vista, or a PC with Vista installed on it, this is well worth the read.