Re: [IRCA] SP 600 /R390

["Craig Healy" <bubba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm more concerned about VISTA vs XP running some of the software for
> SDR.  I'm sure VISTA will get the drivers required for them, but for
> now, I'm sticking with XP..........Walt.

Not to start an OS war, but I have been advising my clients to avoid Vista
like the plague.  The additional overhead from it's constant checking for
Digital Rights Management issues is very significant.  Under some
circumstances, it will intentionally degrade the quality of any media file
played, if the DRM information isn't exactly right.  And there is no way to
avoid that.

There are also anti-piracy "features" which threaten to make any computer
inoperable if it malfunctions, or if something is changed on the computer
itself.  I also have been told of other problems under the surface.

I have not even gone to XP on my own machines.  If I had to, I would use XP
Pro, and not XP Home.  Some of my clients have machines with XP Home and
they have been problematic.  Still using Windows 2000, and will until it
becomes impossible.

To be honest, I expect to diverge off into Linux before Vista.  It will be a
lot more work, but I will not support all that DRM foolishness.  I would
consider a Mac, but I don't know of a way to run DOS apps.  Linux can.

Craig Healy
Providence, RI

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