DRM in Windows Vista

[Vitoc]

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/02/drm_in_windows.html

Good read.  If what he says is true, it makes me sick.  It makes me feel like I?ve invested way too much of my time, both professional and personal, into Microsoft technologies.  I guess when I downloaded the 2.5 gig ISO for Vista a couple months ago it should have been a warning flag.  That?s 2.5 *billion* bytes of compressed data.  Other than fancy visual effects and a few convenient programs (most of which are already found in XP or 2000), why on earth is the operating system so god damn bloated?  It?s the reason we all need at least one gig of ram in order to accomplish anything meaningful on our XP boxes (maybe more for Vista?).  Sure ram is cheap, but if Microsoft would allow me to install only what I need/want and nothing that I don?t, I?d have my PC completely streamlined and working at top efficiency and with less expensive hardware.  All I really want is a stable, secure, operating system with a functional GUI that can play today?s latest games.  It doesn?t have to have all those bells, whistles, wizards, and lame programs that I never use, but if they feel the OS must absolutely offer them, make them all configurable options and save me some of the system resources I paid for. 

/rant

[Hagrid]

But its free! :)