Get rid of that damned DRM anchor in the performance of new microprocessors, or forget my ever going to VISTA.
The very idea of having to get Microshaft's "permission" to change hardware components on MY computer makes me bristle. Just thinking about it!
Me too.
Not permission, provision. Say you want to load Photoshop, version 5.5. You tell MS and they tell you that you need to get MS programs w,x,y, and z, so that Photoshop will run.
And only them, no other crap.
You say “yes”, either buying w,x,y, and z or getting them free, and you install them before installing Photoshop. Only Microsoft could tell you if both everything will work, and will work *well* on your system, ahead of time.
Alternatively, Photoshop might say on the box that it requires a list of system features to run, so you need to get them first.
As far as DRM goes, most home users don’t want it, but corporations have to have it for liability reasons. And this goes to system configuration in the first place.
Only Microsoft has the knowledge base, or could have the knowledge base, to maximize computer performance with not just their, but other vendor’s software as well. Just the stuff you want, nothing extra. Especially DRM.
And if you are setting up you computer for the first time, before you have any data files at all, would you find it troubling that it works at maximum efficiency?
After that point, it is no longer Microsoft’s business what you do with your computer. But let’s say a year down the road, and you get Photoshop 9.3. Either Adobe or Microsoft would give you the information for a clean uninstall of 5.5, and then an *ideal* install of 9.3.
In the process, they tell you that your scanner and video card could be replaced, and if you slapped on another gigabyte of memory you would get much better performance.
Your choice to take their advice.