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HardOCP Spends 30 Days With Vista 662

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @01:50PM from the second-verse-same-as-the-first dept.

boyko.at.netqos writes "Hardocp.com has published "30 days with Vista" — with the same author from "30 days with Linux" doing the evaluation. And he doesn't like it. From the article: 'Based on my personal experiences with Vista over a 30 day period, I found it to be a dangerously unstable operating system, which has caused me to lose data [...] Any consideration of the fine details comes in second to that one inescapable conclusion. This is an unstable operating system.'"

Perens Rains on Novell's Parade 277

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday March 21, 2007 @02:08PM from the umbrella-sales-up-five-percent dept.

unum15 writes "This week is Novell's Brainshare conference. They are touting the Microsoft covenant not to sue as 'good for consumers'. However, Bruce Perens decided to take this opportunity to 'rain on Novell's parade'. Perens read a statement from RMS affirming the GPLv3 would not allow companies to enter deals like this and continue to offer GPLv3 software. Perens even goes as far as to suggest this move is an exit strategy by Novell. There are also audio and pictures of the event available."

Comment Slashdot - anti-Vista FUD 24/7 ... (Score 1) 438

by tereshchenko on Monday January 01, 2007 @09:45AM (#17421636) Attached to: Vista and the Music Industry

I've been alpha/beta testing Vista since mid-2005, and did not have a single DRM-related problem. I've ripped DVDs with DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter, CDs with EAC and iTunes. Hell, even Windows Media DRM cracks work there.

You read it here first: there is no hidden scary unexpected changes in Vista.

Yes, there are expected third-party software incompatibilities - but that's a new version of OS, what did you expect?
And yes, competitors of MS (open source zealots, open source companies, Apple, Sun, etc) are using anything real or fake to bury competitor's product. Also expected. It is funny that they have to invent bs like subject of the article - proves that Vista is pretty good OS.

Time to go *outside* and relax.

Vista and the Music Industry 438

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 01, 2007 @02:54AM from the locked-down dept.

BanjoBob writes "Vista locks down all the DRM functionality and actually reduces the quality of playback of some media. This includes both audio and video content. As a company creating music and video products, how can we use Vista to create, distribute, and use legal media? I have read nothing to indicate that Vista has a model to allow 'authorized' use without causing problems. Currently we use Windows 2000 and Linux products. If what we understand is true, Vista and future Microsoft products won't be viable options for us since prior to publication, media must be copied multiple times, edited, moved around, re-edited and often modified into various forms (trailers, etc.) before, during, and after production. This naturally includes backups and recovery. If Vista is intent on prohibiting these uses, then Microsoft is intent on keeping their products out of the realm of content creation and editing. How do others deal with these issues?"

World Firefox Day 251

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday July 16, 2006 @11:38AM from the immortalized-in-code dept.

kbrosnan writes "Are you a fan of Firefox? Want to spread the word to a friend who hasn't heard of it yet? If you can convince just one person to switch to Firefox before September 15th, you'll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.0's source code."

More Headaches from Vista Security 240

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 08, 2006 @05:22PM from the bottle-of-pain-medication-shipped-with-every-sale dept.

Michael Cooney writes to tell us Windows Vista may have some serious headaches in store for corporate users with third-party authentication systems like VPNs. From the article: "ISVs say rewriting their code for the new architecture will produce headaches that will extend to their customers that have deployed strong authentication such as biometrics or tokens, enterprise single sign-on and a number of other systems integrated with the Windows authentication architecture."

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