[ale] Microsoft tries to reverse Vista's Impact on the environment

[Charles Shapiro]

Wow, that's awesome!  I'm so glad to know that those people have my Best
Interest at Heart. That must be why Microsoft says the London Stock Exchange
is a Happy Customer ( http://www.microsoft.com/uk/getthefacts/lse.mspx ),
but the LSE is in fact
soon to become an ex-customer (
http://blogs.computerworld.com/london_stock_exchange_to_abandon_failed_windows_platform).


-- CHS

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> The DRM stuff that dominates the Vista OS uses loads of cpu cycles to
> encrypt and decrypt  stuff to keep people from being thievin' scum
> bags and depriving the poor movie and music studios of their well
> deserved monies. It has gone so far as to encrypt data en-route to the
> HDMI-capable TV set so movies can't be copied using the "analog hole"
> .
>
> Many ideas have been suggested for ways to help Microsoft fill their
> analog hole....
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Courtney
> Thomas<courtneycthomas at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> > Richard,
> >
> > Pardon my ignorance... but please elaborate on "they go so far as to burn
> > gratuitous cycles to encrypt and decrypt data going in and out RAM".
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Courtney
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Richard Bronosky" <Richard at Bronosky.com>
> > To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!" <ale at ale.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:03 PM
> > Subject: [ale] Microsoft tries to reverse Vista's Impact on the
> environment
> >
> >
> >> First they push an OS that requires the most power hungry systems the
> >> consumer market had ever seen. They go so far as to burn gratuitous
> >> cycles to encrypt and decrypt data going in and out RAM because they
> >> assume all their customers are criminals. Now they are going to make
> >> it all better with http://www.microsoft-hohm.com/
> >>
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