Thread: What is wrong with the Microsoft Windows Vista?

Usually, the new software makes it possible to do more with the aid of computers. Vista, in turn, is intended to limit your opportunities.

Vista impose new forms of `` Digital Rights Management (DRM) Digital Rights of the Office''. DRM more accurately be called the Office of digital Limitations (Digital Restrictions Management), because it is technology that Media giants and computer companies are trying to impose on us all, in order to have control over how to use our computers.

The expert in the field of technology security Bruce Schneier (Bruce Schneier) explains this most eloquently:


Windows Vista includes an array of `` features''that you don't want. These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure. They'll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will cause technical support problems. They may even require you to upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software. And these features won't do anything useful. In fact, they're working against you. They're digital rights management (DRM) features built into Vista at the behest of the entertainment industry - And you don't get to refuse them.


Windows Vista c `` contains a lot of features''that you do not want. These features make your computer less reliable and less secure. They will make your computer work less stable and more slowly. This will cause problems with technical support. They may even require the modernization of some of your peripheral devices and software that you have used before. These features will not do anything useful. Indeed, they work against you. They nazvayutsya features of digital rights management (DRM), built in Vista, on the order of the entertainment industry --- And you can not refuse them.

DRM provides the power and Microsoft Media giants
They decide what programs you may or may not use on your computer
They decide what features your hardware or software you can use
They forced you to install new programs, even if you do not want it (and, of course, to pay for this privilege)
They restrict your access to certain programs, and even to your own data files
DRM technology is forcibly obstacles. You are trying to do something, and your computer tells you that you can not do it. For this to effectively work, your computer must constantly keep track of what you are doing. This constant surveillance uses computational resources, computer, and this is one of the main reasons why Microsoft said that you need to buy new, more productive equipment to work with Vista. They want you to buy new equipment, not because you need it, but because your computer to be more powerful for effective control of your actions.

Microsoft and other computer companies are sometimes called `` Vychisleniyami these restriction based on trust (Trusted Computing)''. Given the fact that they are intended for the computer to trust you stopped and began to trust Microsoft, those limitations are more suitable called `` The calculations are based on deception (Treacherous)''.

Even when you legally buy Vista, it does not belong to you.
Windows Vista, as well as previous versions of Windows, a proprietary software: it delivered to you rented the terms of the license, severely limiting your user rights and without the source code, so nobody except Microsoft can not change the program and even find out what it actually doing.

Microsoft said this best:

The software is licensed, not sold. This agreement only gives you some rights to use the software. Microsoft reserves all other rights. Unless applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may use the software only as expressly permitted in this agreement. In doing so, you must comply with any technical limitations in the software that only allow you to use it in certain ways.

This program is licensed, not sold. This agreement only gives you some rights to use the program. Microsoft reserves all remaining rights. Except when applicable law gives you more rights despite this limitation, you may use the only way you are allowed in the agreement. Thus, you must obey technical limitations in the program that allow you to use only certain ways.



Painful to read those licenses, so people often do not protest against them. But if we do not start to protest, we will lose significant freedom. Here are some ridiculous restrictions that you will find reading:

If your copy of Vista came together with the purchase of a computer, the copy of Vista can only legally be used on this machine, forever.
If you bought a retail shop in Vista, and set it on the car, which you already possess, you must completely remove it from the machine before you can install it on another vehicle.
You give Microsoft the right, via the Windows Defender, remove from your system program that will be recognized by the spyware.
You consent to the fact that Microsoft will spy on you through the system `` Windows Genuine Advantage''. The system tries to identify copy that Microsoft considers illegal. Unfortunately, recent studies have shown that the system is already wrong in more than 500000 cases.
Free software such as GNU / Linux does not require you to agree to such absurd terms of licensing. It's called free, because you are free to do as long as you want copies, and share them with any number of friends. No one will monitor your actions and undeservedly called a thief.

What can you do to help protect your freedom
There is a battle between those who cherish freedom, and corporations, such as Microsoft, who want to earn that deny us that freedom. DRM and absurd licenses are in the heart of this battle. Please join us on the side of freedom, not just saying NO Windows Vista and other products containing DRM, but all proprietary programs. Use that do not contain DRM-free programs, such as the operating system GNU / Linux. You can solve your tasks confident that your rights and freedoms will not be restricted now and in the future.

While an increasing portion of our lives is becoming digital, it is vitally important to protect our digital freedoms as we have worked hard to protect our freedom of the press and speech.