[NitroNutter]

Well having played with Vista some its a very good upgrade over XP but I feel its a doomed OS in the fact that its going try to control in an all round manner what the end user does with it by extending the DRM technology way to far and any application it doesnt like will be blocked from running full stop. I can see where this business model is coming from as software authors , maybe with vista or maybe the next version of windows will be needing to subscribe financially to the OS to write for it and by return MS will guarantee blocking anything not appearing ligitimate. If all this isnt implemented in vista it wont be long before its either aded to it or much fuller DRM becomes completely integrated to the next version of windows beyond vista. What will this mean, it means when the next gen decrypters come round ie as a cheaply named potential example, a future application say BD-Decrypter this application will be blocked from running and so on. Theres a long bumpy road ahead aswell as for open source programmers and probably even visual source programming as the only way such extensive restrictions can work is to kill the alternatives, the only way to kill alternatives will be to outlaw them. Vista I see as the begining of attempting to bring this about, although it has been the model schemed for a long time by creating oem alliances and having the earlier versions od windows easily copy able was the real begining the real goal is now very easily visible.

In short if vista is backed by the consumer it will ultimately ensure MS has a finger in every single software pie in existance including movies and music. Alternatives will be deemed illegal with the main reasoning that they can be used to break DRM, thereby open source would be akin to a software mod like consoles have managed to get hardware modchips an illegal comodity. Even worse, if MS doesnt like some new creativity it wont get through, just as today and has been for a long time many radio stations play only whats thrown at them by the larger publishing houses.

Could well be why it was apptly codenamed "longhorn"