>>1
Lol loser, stick to what you have or you'll suffer dearly.
>>4
They can. Google "treacherous computing" or "trusted computing".
>>5
Of course. Vista comes with Microsoft's malware/spyware to enforce this.
>>6
Wow, talk about a bloated OS. Windows Vista really is the worst piece of shit Microsoft could ever come up with.
Read what
>>13 says. It's not a matter of having enough hardware, it's a matter of using it in a reasonable manner. It's stupid to waste RAM just because it's cheap (in the end, it'll work slower than a better OS, as it'll have less free RAM for the system cache). It's stupid to waste HD space just because it's cheap (in the end, you'll end up with a larger OS to backup and maintain, and millions more possbile points of failure). It's stupid to waste video acceleration (in the end, you end up buying a better video card or having an UI that works like Windows 2000 did in a 486, where moving windows weren't smooth, not that it looks great anyways, and you also end up stressing your video card more than you did, shortening its lifespan and wasting power and requiring the fan to work faster all the time).
And most of all, it's stupid to install Windows Vista, unless you love getting your ass raped with DRM and Microsoft's malware.
>>17
The new features that come with Windows Vista are not only crippled, oversimplified and partly useless, but they are also provided by free applications you can run on Windows 2000 or XP for 1/100 the resource requirements, no OS upgrade, and no DRM AIDS.
>>18
My company used Windows for half-60% of the PCs, but decided not to purchase Windows Vista and to abandon Windows when forced to. IBM (yeah, that small one) decided to do the same. Looks like Microsoft will not rape us this time.
And "tech geeks"? Do you even know what's a geek like? You think "tech geeks" are those guys you see at Walmart buying a Microsoft keyboard and a legitimate copy of Windows? Tech geeks are already using Linux, or a stripped down version of the Windows NT OS of their choice, but I have yet to see a geek moving to Windows DRM.