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I have several reasons that I'm never going to get Vista, or use it unless I'm forced to for work or class.

1. It's going to be incredibly DRM-friendly. Older monitors are actually going to be crippled with it because they don't support a certain DRM technique.

2. The system requirements are insane.

3. This is going to sound horribly cliche but...I'm not going to support Microsoft if there's any alternative.

goose: Regarding command lines, Windows will never beat Unix-based or Unix-like operating systems, because the command line on those systems is constantly improved.

As long as you use whatever other people use, you will never have a good operating system. Have you ever tried an alternative? I don't mean a shell account, but a locally installed alternative.

Pantero Blanco: I agree with you. With DRM Microsoft will lose customers, I guess. At least I hope so.

Windows are going to be forced to remove all the DRM technologies because of the no. of people who won't buy it for a reason of buying new monitor just to use the OS, the amount of people who dislike the DRM crap as seen with the Sony case (the problems it can cause) and the fact that Microsoft is being Hollywood's toy. Forget them.

androme wrote:Windows are going to be forced to remove all the DRM technologies because of the no. of people who won't buy it for a reason of buying new monitor just to use the OS, the amount of people who dislike the DRM crap as seen with the Sony case (the problems it can cause) and the fact that Microsoft is being Hollywood's toy. Forget them.

Microsoft will not be forced to remove anything, its entirely their choice. I am really growing to dislike the choice of words that alot of users pull up around here.
It is extremely unlikely microsoft will remove the DRM stuff (I severly hope we are talking about Digi Rights Management here otherwise you may as well disregard this) as it is something they have been planning (along with a group of other major hardware/software companies) for years, it helps to protect their income. They are a business and all they are looking for is income. To the average user DRM means nothing, it pops up in the news and they think "oh, its helping protect Artist's rights, good on them" they don't know any different or care much.

In most cases the product will sell just as well as previous OS' did if thee consumers PC spec is upto it. Most consumers will adapt to the publishers product as they always have done. Sure there will be a few who know otherwise, believe otherwise, or whatever but thats only a small proportion of the target audience and as it is such a small proportion I'm sure companies like MS will not lose any sleep over it.