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This weekend's Windows Genuine Advantage outage was a powerful reminder of the asymmetrical trade-off inherent in Microsoft's anti-piracy efforts. Microsoft's aggressive focus on stopping piracy isn't matched by the care and precision such a task needs to prevent it from punishing legitimate users. Once again, we're scratching our heads looking for the "advantage" in Windows Genuine Advantage. Not only did the WGA services at Microsoft fail—which is quite amazing in and of itself—but when they did, clients were negatively affected, too. Somehow, a flaw in the central system could cause worldwide problems, translating into false counterfeit software identifications pinned on users around the globe. Why it failed in this way is a mystery, and Microsoft has not been forthcoming as of yet. Regardless, WGA has proven to be something other than harmless. Honest customers are accused of being crooks, and worst of all—absolutely amazing, really—is the fact that this error-prone system can and will reduce the functionality of Windows Vista. Remotely disabling aspects of a user's computing experience is dangerous territory to be playing in, especially when having problems such as these.
a few of us have been saying for awhile now that vista is the new windows ME........... and this sort of stuff just futher enhances that view, if your the proud owner of a vista system take it back and get a refund..........DRM is lethal as it updates in real time in the background and is basically unpreventable, in that you cant stop it from phoneing home.........this situation is only going to get worse, and i seriously doubt any service pack is going to fix what is really a broken system......any operating system that tries to control content that you view or download should be avoided at all costs........for the obvious reasons........just because vista has pretty graphics doesnt make it a good system, in fact the resources used to generate these graphics is more then most servers use and thats saying something.........vista is just a crappy operating system by any standard you may want to use, all in a shiny new wrapper to fool users into thinking there getting something that there not........rubbish is rubbish regardless of the packageing and the marketing used to promote it........after all windows ME was prmoted as the operating system for the new millinia, within a year it was replaced, and i dare say vista will be in the same boat sooner rather then later...................
Quote from: bughunter on August 29, 2007, 01:02:51 ama few of us have been saying for awhile now that vista is the new windows ME........... and this sort of stuff just futher enhances that view, if your the proud owner of a vista system take it back and get a refund..........DRM is lethal as it updates in real time in the background and is basically unpreventable, in that you cant stop it from phoneing home.........this situation is only going to get worse, and i seriously doubt any service pack is going to fix what is really a broken system......any operating system that tries to control content that you view or download should be avoided at all costs........for the obvious reasons........just because vista has pretty graphics doesnt make it a good system, in fact the resources used to generate these graphics is more then most servers use and thats saying something.........vista is just a crappy operating system by any standard you may want to use, all in a shiny new wrapper to fool users into thinking there getting something that there not........rubbish is rubbish regardless of the packageing and the marketing used to promote it........after all windows ME was prmoted as the operating system for the new millinia, within a year it was replaced, and i dare say vista will be in the same boat sooner rather then later...................Just bought my wife a new machine with Vista on it. Funny thing is there were no XP machines for sale. You can bet Microsoft is gonna cram it's crap down out throats unless it's almost completely refused. Who if anybody can tell me they run an XP machine that has 77 processes at startup. And I'd be willing to bet that 98.9% are "Windows" processes. I'd imagine you could by with it on just about 60% of those 98.9% of windows processes.it's definately slower than my XP machine. Mines is rockin n rollin on a bass guitar where hers with only slightly slower specs and keepin a steady snails pace.
