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Ärende: MS DRM article 4 Geo
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From: Adam <particle@SomewhereOnTheOuterEdgeOfTheUniverse.com>

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37091

"MICROSOFT HAS JUST made one of the wormiest excuses for an explanation of the
Vista DRM infection I have ever read. It is one of the saddest attempts I have
ever seen for a lawyer written piece of spin put out as a blog and these things
should be content labeled.

Remember the MS suicide note about the DRM infection? Well, Microsoft tries to
"refute" that with a stomach-churning piece of spin, but ends up confirming
everything. Earlier I said that Vista wasn't for me, and I meant just that, for
me, not that it wasn't suitable for everyone. Microsoft's latest piece just
convinced me I was wrong, Vista is unsuitable for everyone.

Read this piece on Microsoft's "blog" site, cunningly labled "Windows Vista
Content Protection – Twenty Questions (and answers)", and make sure you read
the comments fully. Because right now, not a single one agrees with ots take on
things, but I am sure the astroturfing will change that.

There are enough problems with this pablum to choke a horse. It is presented as
a candid Q&A session with nice people trying to educate you about the goodness
that is Vista. Read the Q&A and ask yourself "who the
#(&$ talks like that?", I mean when you are talking to your friends, do
talk like that? No, but lawyers writing up a carefully crafted piece of spin
do. .

But it gets funnier, Microsoft confirms just about every point in the Gutmann
pieceand tries to spin it as good. It is one of the most amazing piece of PR
weaselwork I have seen for years. Try this one on for size.

Will echo cancellation work less well for premium content? We believe that
Windows Vista provides applications with access to sufficient information to
successfully build high quality echo cancellation functionality.

*BLINK* Less well?!?"


WRT us poor sods in Health IT.....

" Look at the part about medical imaging. Microsoft says it won't degrade
medical imaging. Or will it? "For example, if a user were viewing medical
imagery concurrently with playback of video which required image constraint,
only the commercial video would be constrained -- not the medical image or
other things on the user's desktop."

All is peachy, right? No problem there right? Scroll down to the comment by
Panderso:

Since when did you think that DRM would not apply to medical imaging. Speaking
as a physician, we ALREADY have this problem. The medical image DICOM format
has been split into various flavors by competing software vendors who do their
best to make sure that you have to have THEIR viewer in order to see files
saved in their version of the format. Further competing hospitals are choosing
not to install viewers that would allow MD's to look at films that were taken
at their competition ( or perhaps their IT staff can't be bothered to install
them -- either way the result is the same). This proprietary behavior is
already hindering patient care.
Vista's enhanced DRM only aggravates this nonsense!!

So, Microsoft isn't screwing you, it has set up enough plausible deniablilty,
when you get screwed, it isn't its fault, honest. "

Hummmmmmm.....once more it's one thing we looked at because if we transmit some
bloody enormous medical image to some user at great expense then we want (& the
Clinicians demand) that they can see every damn captured piece of info & not
something determined via a OS & a vid card & a monitor to keep some movie mogul
happy.

& in summary....

"Microsoft can't come clean, can't talk honestly, and won't do anything to
protect its customers. Keep that in mind when you are buying your next PC, if
you buy one with Vista pre-installed, you are funding the very people who are
actively hurting you."

Adam

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