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

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 2/1/07, Mike Miller <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.

As a worker for the 800-TON gorilla, however, I can say that although
people may buy Vista, many really large government organizations are
in no hurry whatsoever. As it happens, the feds have not very much
interest in the alleged advantages of Vista (e.g., DirectX 10) and a
huge investment in the status quo. So huge, in fact, that it's not
clear to me that the NIH will be buying anything with Vista on it for
quite some time.

So this is not to say that lots of people won't buy Vista or that the
feds will shun it forever, just that there is no big rush to Vista at
the moment for many very large IT outfits, and I don't see this
changing very quickly.

jking

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