Pixelated Semantics

Locked and loaded: the Vista experience

Microsoft's specs for Vista have been officially posted. In the detail is the devil's hand: for with some versions users will be forced to have a 'Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 chip' (built-in hardware Digital Rights Management) and for 'Premium' installations they mandate 'Internet access capability'. Locked and loaded, to extrapolate a militarised cliche: users will be unable to control their access rights to media that is legally owned, and will be forced to allow remote access to their machines (such as reporting software piracy, etc.) MS also promise that 'All editions of Windows Vista will deliver core experiences such as innovations in organizing and finding information, security, and reliability': 'functions' or 'features' are now 'core experiences' (if these are anything like Man of Steel's 'core promises' expect Vista to revert to the operating level of Windows 3.1 in short order). Strictly speaking, an 'innovation' is probably not an 'experience' either.

Item posted by AutoEditor at 10:44 am ::