Wednesday, 10. January 2007
Topic: COMPUTER - on January 10, 2007 at 1:33:00 PM CET
Analysis of Microsoft's Suicide Note
In a controversial technical analysis Peter Gutmann goes into fantastic detail about the recently released Vista operating system and its content protection scheme. One thing became clear to me after reading this analysis. Vista is being marketed to content producers, not consumers. If Windows XP was Microsoft’s attempt to embed a browser into the operating system then Vista is the attempt to embed DRM. Digital Rights Management technology has been applied to literally every ring of the OS architecture.
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