This is for conversation, only. We know that Microsoft is far too greedy for their own good. I believe my ideas would pour more money into Microsoft than hackable Windows being sold pours in.
Can there be a hardware solution? Not with firmware that can be flashed such as the BIOS on motherboards.
What about a team effort with the CPU manufacturers and Microsoft to build the authority to run Windows into the CPU? Naturally this would have to start with a newer version of Windows in the future. Vista has already been hacked.
Microsoft would have to give a lot on this. First of all Microsoft would not be able to offer different versions of the operating system. Upgrades would be impossible if Windows was linked to the CPU. There could be only one version, the best!
Microsoft would have to trash their OEM policy. If Windows was linked to the CPU then Windows could be carried forward as far as the CPU could be carried forward. This would slow down rapid advances in technology that require new computers built around new CPU's. This would stimulate an industry that specialized in rebuilding computers around older CPU's that authorized that version of Windows to run. The trade off would be that in order to move up to a newer operating system, one would have to buy a new computer with a new CPU.
Does anyone care to comment on these ideas? If any agree with me that my ideas are workable, they wouild be practically admitting that the largest problem with operating system piracy is allowed by Microsoft. Microsoft refuses to use a hardware solution that can not be flashed. Have you ever heard of altering or flashing a CPU?
Chuck
