Tuesday, February 17, 2009  Windows 7 DRM edition  And now back
to our favourite sport, Microsoft bashing. Slashdot reports some
unnerving built-in features in the new MS operating system:
Microsoft seems determined not to learn the lessons from Windows
Vista. One of the reasons why Vista was such a dud was because
it had a complex and draconian built-in DRM systems that meant a
driver shortage, as well as being resource-heavy. Peter Gutmann
published an excellent paper in 2007 unearthing Microsoft's
flawed strategy, and he concluded: "Overall, Vista's content-
protection functionality seems like an astonishingly short-
sighted piece of engineering, concentrating entirely on content
protection with no consideration given to the enormous
repercussions of the measures employed. [...] To add insult to
injury, consider what this enormous but ultimately wasted effort
could have been put towards. Microsoft is saying that Vista will
be the most secure version of Windows yet, but they've been
saying that for every new