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2007 Predictions: The Vista Prospect
Sunday, December 31st, 2006
While Microsoft seems to be getting a surprising amount of bad Vista press, I see this is pretty 
meaningless as far as Vista is concerned. OK, so a few security holes have emerged already, but it’s only news because it’s Vista. (When Apple releases security patches nobody makes a news story out of it.) The security story is born naturally from the pathetic levels of security that Windows 2000 and Windows XP provided. As far as I can tell Windows Vista is very securable and in time (it’ll be a few years yet) this will squash the level virus activity.
Another story that broke recently implied that Microsoft had shot itself in the foot with its DRM. The truth here is that Microsoft’s DRM is expensive in CPU power and will probably prove annoying to Vista users. This looks like an overblown story to me. Most PC buyers have no conception of the ins and outs of CPU power and many seemed quite happy to have AV software cripple their performance (when it kicked in) so I don’t think a few CPU cycles here and there are going to mean much. One thing that Vista does (for premium content) is diminish the quality of playback when DRM-protected content is being played. This will annoy some people, I expect, but I suspect that many people will simply not notice. IT-Analysis.com - Robin Bloor - 2007 Predictions: The Vista Prospect
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