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

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Mark <md.benson at gmail.com>
>Date: 2007/05/06 Sun PM 03:20:12 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] The Dog's Breakfast: Microsoft Windows Vista

>On 6 May 2007, at 20:43, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> Vista doesn't require DRM hardware
>
>It requires DRM capable hardware to perform some functions, without  
>the necessary hardware you cannot use these functions, or iof you do  
>(in the case of HD Video) your experience will be significantly  
>degraded.

DRM hardware is required to take advantage of DRM software - that is not the 
same as requiring it for the OS to funtion at all...

>> unlike Apple Intel hardware (which includes TPM hardware, IIRC)...
>
>Incorrect. Apple ceased to include TPM modules in Intel Mac s  
>starting with the Mac Pro (which is conveniently the one I bought),  
>and subsequently including all models made thereafter. They stopped  
>using it to 'key' OS X Tiger because it was ineffective as the  
>methods it used were circumvented fairly early in the life of OS X  
>10.4 Intel. Instead, OS X 10.4 x86 has a closed-source Kernel (unlike  
>the PowerPC and Darwin versions) that works out if you are using a  
>Mac some other way, and no-one knows how (which is just how they want  
>it).

Mea culpa - they did originally require it, but dropped it (as a few pointed 
out)...

Lionel