If Microsoft had told the RIAA to go pound sand, the RIAA would have had
no realistic choice except to go pound sand. No one /forced/ Microsoft
to do anything.
Adam Maas wrote:
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Graydon<o...@uniserve.com> wrote:
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 02:01:00PM -0400, Adam Maas scripsit:
When it comes down to it, Vista had 3 problems at launch:
1. Poor hardware support at Launch (Windows 7 also ahs this, but not
_quite_ as bad as Vista). This is totally not MS's fault as Vista
beta's were available via MSDN long before launch.
Doesn't mean the betas would run on just any hardware, or were stable
with respect to the hardware they would run on.
A lot of the problem was an attempt to make Vista secure versus media
copying, and this had to be extended to the drivers and was not ideally
well explained by Microsoft to the folks writing drivers.
-- Graydon
I'd have to disagree there. That almost entirely affected display
drivers, which was one area where Vista really never had much in the
way of issues even at launch.
That idiocy was also forced on MS by the RIAA.
-Adam
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