Re: [MLUG] A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

[Dave McBride <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

What about Mac?  They will have to follow suit, of course, but are they yet?

Now wondering if I should try to scrape up the $$ to buy a Mac before 
the bushel goes bad,
 Dave

p.s. And a spare HDD or two.

Vern Green wrote:
> I bought a new video card tonight, while the card I bought did not have 
> it, there were other cards that were already printed with "HDCP Ready" 
> on the box. Now, apparently these cards are not fully ready, but it is 
> not going to be long before they are.
>  
> http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/13/ati-and-nvidias-hdcp-support-video-cards-dont-support-hdcp/
>  
> The idea that hardware companies are going to reject this specification 
> and force Microsoft's hand is ludicrous. Forget it, not going to happen. 
> Hardware manufacturers are going to support it and I would be surprised 
> if they are not falling over one another to attempt to be the first ones 
> out with fully compatible hardware.
>  
> http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/13/ati-and-nvidias-hdcp-support-video-cards-dont-support-hdcp/
>
>  
> On 1/31/07, *Mike Miller* <EMAIL:PROTECTED 
> <mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED>> wrote:
>
>     On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Dave McBride wrote:
>
>      > I hope you are right and M$ has stepped on a rake. I'd like to
>     envision some
>      > kind of mass revolt, at least among hardware makers, but I'm not
>     optimistic.
>
>     I'm not optimistic either.  M$ is the 800-pound gorilla in computing and
>     people are going to buy Vista.  If hardware manufacturers produce
>     products
>     that don't work with Vista, they'll be screwed.  So they will comply.
>
>     By the way, on another LUG some people were saying stuff like "Microsoft
>     is screwed now", etc.  But if you look at stats from web sites that
>     read
>     the OS from people's browsers, Windows OSs have 96+% of market share and
>     Linux has 0.37%.  That's quite a difference and it will take many
>     years to
>     catch up!
>
>     Mike
>
>
>      > Mike Miller wrote:
>      >> I sent this to the discussion list accidentally.  I should have
>     sent this
>      >> to MLUG membership list, with a subject line.  So here it is...
>      >>
>      >> Have you guys read this?  Read as much as possible but don't
>     miss "Final
>      >> Thoughts."  It is all pretty amazing:
>      >>
>      >> A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
>      >> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
>     <http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html>
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