G'Day
I wont be touching it with a ten foot long, sterilized barge pole. I am not interested in spending large amounts of money to buy/upgrade a system so that I can then be a captive of the draconian DRM implemented in Vista.
This paper is a Cost Analysis of the Content Protection (where you have no rights), 1984 stuff. Dont believe it is written by some street corner crackpot, it is written by
Peter Gutmann, who is a researcher at Auckland University who also designs/builds/breaks security systems and consults to governments around the world on computer security. This is another reason I will not be going anywhere near Vista - but it is your choice.
XP is the last version of windoze I will voluntarily be using, the plan for next year (2007)is to learn Linux.
Geoff