Interesting Article on Cost/Benefit of Moving to Vista

[Soopafresh]

Really good for the hardware manufacturer comments alone.

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html#introduction

"Some contributors have commented that they can't see the revocation system ever being used because the consumer backlash would be too enormous, but then the legal backlash from not going ahead could be equally extreme. The only real indication that we have for how committed Microsoft really are to this is the amazing speed with which Microsoft released a patch for the WMDRM (Windows Media DRM) vulnerability, which they rushed out at a speed that even the most virulent worm never produced. This would seem to indicate that they're pretty serious about this, since they prioritised it above any conventional non-DRM-related security problem."

[politiken]

This must be the reason why Microsoft has prolonged the support for Windows XP with 5 years, till 2014.

[JohnnyMalaria]

This must be the reason why Microsoft has prolonged the support for Windows XP with 5 years, till 2014.

Not so.

Since at least mid 2005, Microsoft's position has been that free support for an OS will continue for 2 years after the next one is released and then provide extended (fee-based) support for 5 years after that.

[ahhaa]

there are a number of kinda alarming portents in this article, especially the net-addicted aspect of it for longsuffering dialup users like me.

Soopa- thanks for posting this!

[ahhaa]

John- congrats on the final beta!