[geeks] The Dog's Breakfast: Microsoft Windows Vista

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Sandwich Maker <adh at an.bradford.ma.us>
>Date: 2007/05/04 Fri AM 08:08:37 CDT
>To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [geeks] The Dog's Breakfast: Microsoft Windows Vista

>" From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
>" 
>" Sandwich Maker wrote:
>" > " From: "Dan Duncan" <danduncan at gmail.com>
>" > " 
>" > " On 5/2/07, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
>" > " > Dell is going back to XP, other vendors say they might follow or are
>" > " > trying to break their contracts, Dell is shipping Ubuntu systems, 
etc.
>" > " 
>" > " I just bought a new laptop (my first new laptop ever) and booted into 
Vista
>" > " long enough to make sure all the hardware was present and working (and
>" > " what it was) before I wiped it off the drive.
>" > 
>" > my gf's son got a new notebook a month or two ago - xp pro.  he wanted
>" > vista-capable, but doesn't plan to actually 'upgrade'.
>" 
>" I don't particularly want "Vista capable".  "Vista capable" probably
>" implies hardware DRM support.
>
>scary thought.  in this case the model has been out a while, so
>'capable' may only mean it's porky enough to run vista.

Vista doesn't require DRM hardware, unlike Apple Intel hardware (which 
includes TPM hardware, IIRC)...

Lionel