Re: Vista and XSI? Back to VISTA

["Wayne Williams" <wayne.williams(at)theorphanage.com>]

What's the matter with WinXP 64bit?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christian R. Perry" <christianrperry(at)gmail.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:51 PM
Subject: RE: Vista and XSI? Back to VISTA


> Vista is the 800 pound gorilla in the room that will be hard to ignore. 
> It's
> a war of attrition. It's only a matter of time before XP withers and dries
> up. Sure, there are concerns with Vista but I am sure they will all shake
> out in the end. There are too many people with similar concerns globally 
> for
> this not to happen. My interest in Vista is a solid 64bit windows 
> platform,
> which is the future for me.
>
> Christian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf 
> Of
> Nicolas Langlois
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:21 PM12:21
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: Vista and XSI? Back to VISTA
>
> And I remember a firewall software not allowing XSI to run at all as
> well! Very practical and useful. I don't need no one telling me what to
> run and what not to run on my machine.
>
> When the only admin in the world will be located at microsoft HQ and we
> won't even be allowed to choose what we run on our machines for
> security, terrorism, copyrights or whatever reasons they try to blame it
> on, I won't want to be computing anymore! Get people informed, not caged.
>
> niko
>
>
>
>
>
> jordibares wrote:
> > I still remember a anti-virus messing up XSI licensing tool thinking
> > it was spyware. Am I wrong?
> >
> > jb
> >
> >
> > On 1/2/07 18:00, "Luc-Eric Rousseau" <lucer(at)Softimage.COM> wrote:
> >
> >     One would hope, Jordi, that you have enough understanding of
> >     technology
> >     to understand what a spyware removal tool does.
> >
> >
> >         -----Original Message-----
> >         *From:* owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM
> >         [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM]
> >         <mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM%5D>*On Behalf Of *jordibares
> >         *Posted At:* Thursday, February 01, 2007 12:44 PM
> >         *Posted To:* xsi
> >         *Conversation:* Vista and XSI? Back to VISTA
> >         *Subject:* 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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