Ohhhhhhhhhh
Yeah I was thinking about the unique IDs...
If I need to get a new key every time I switch netcards I''m gonna be pissed.

I''ll have to check the betas to see if they give any insight into how this will work...

They back-peddled on thier new licensing model for citrix severs, I imagine the same will happen with this.

Magmai Kai Holmlor
- The disgruntled & disillusioned

There is no reason to believe these ''facts'' over the thirty other respectable site''s ''facts'' I have read over the past few months, all of which have different and many times contradictory details. I have completely given up trying to figure out exactly what XP does. I suggest everyone be very skeptical of anything they read on the protection scheme until XP is released.


Mike

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It''s the principle of the thing as much as it is the reality. I''m not going to start (or continue, in the cases of future MS OS''s) paying MS to make products that don''t work for me. They have started to attempt make me pay to have a product that works against me, why should I give into their will?

I''m not just against MS, I''d do the same against any company that did anything like this. I stopped using Napster the day they gave into the RIAA, and that was a much less dramatic event that the features WinXP will have will be.

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I completely agree. Not only is the technology very invasive, but it also paves the way to worst stuff in the future. If you want to roll over people''s rights and dignity, it''s easy to do so, just do it one step at a time. MS know this.

And for the ppl saying WinXP is a good OS, what about the forced cap on mp3 quality, ensuring that MS''s own sound format becomes superior? I even heard on a news site, that eventually only licensed music will be playable thanks to a hardware thingy that will be introduced in new sound cards. This feature i guess will automatically activate in the future, and people will be forced to use a compliant sound card (and be stripped of most of their music) or have no music at all. Once again, this i only read on one site, however it''s not a completely unreputable site either... And afaik, the low mp3 quality is a fact.

So yea, WinXP sucks in all manner of ways. And i hate the idea of having to develop programs compatible with its skin-happy interface...

PS. I stopped using Napster too If you want a good place for mp3s, go to http://forums.somethingawful.com and go to the NMP3H (no mp3s here) forum. They use public ftps to distribute the stuff, so it''s amazingly fast and quality is excellent 99.9% of the time. The rest of the time, it''s good.

LordElectro:
This is a post about Windows XP Myths...and you''re still perpetuating them.

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what about the forced cap on mp3 quality, ensuring that MS''s own sound format becomes superior?

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Ugh...this is people freaking out over nothing. Windows will not include the ability to encode MP3''s over 64kbit. Why? Because the company that owns the MP3 format charges for the encoder and it would raise the cost of Windows by $5-10. It''s the same reason they don''t include a software DVD player.
This isn''t a great attrocity...right now Windows doesn''t come with any mp3 encoding ability.


Epolevne

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And for the ppl saying WinXP is a good OS, what about the forced cap on mp3 quality, ensuring that MS's own sound format becomes superior?

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What are you using to encode your MP3s now? I would imagine something like AudioCatalyst or whatever. MS has no control over these encoders, and as such, they'll still be able to encode at the full bitrate.


Edited by - dean_harding on April 29, 2001 3:05:49 AM