Waffling with Vista
Microsoft is really starting to piss me off with all of this Vista crap. Do I jump now and buy an XP Pro machine or do I wait and pick up a laptop with Vista preinstalled? My most recent decision was to wait because Vista would be a significant security upgrade to my computing experience (a view which only recently resolved itself) but the latest news coming down the pipe might change my mind. If Microsoft really goes ahead with the integration of AACS content protection deeply into the operating system, I’m inclined to tell them to where to stick it. It might even be enough to push me over to buying an Apple Powerbook. The real problem I have here is that Hollyweird has decided to put itself in the position of dictating what the technology of information presentation will be now and in the future.
It’s madness. It’s anti-consumerist. It’s eventually going to turn the entire world against them.
