Re: Vista and XSI? Back to VISTA

Date : Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:44:10 +0000
To : "<XSI(at)Softimage.COM>" <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
From : jordibares <jordibares(at)the-mill.com>
Subject : Re: Vista and XSI? Back to VISTA
Title: Re: Vista and XSI? Back to VISTA
BTW, back to VISTA


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6319845.stm


Or this little extract


Vista's legal fine print includes extensive provisions granting Microsoft the right to regularly check the legitimacy of the software and holds the prospect of deleting certain programs without the user's knowledge”

And

“Once operational, the agreement warns that Windows Defender will, by default, automatically remove software rated "high" or "severe" even though that may result in other software ceasing to work or mistakenly result in the removal of software that is not unwanted.”

And

“Moreover, he calculated that the technological controls would require considerable consumption of computing power with the system conducting 30 checks each second to ensure that there are no attacks on the security of the premium content.”



NICE

jb

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