I would not despair yet.
One way of looking at it is this , remember when Windows ME was coming out , everyone got all excited only to find out it was an abortion from the word go. Same thing with SE , 2K , nearly every major upgrade or service pack is always looked upon with great expectations and turns out to be a road apple , including of course XP.
Vista may be the lion that squeeked, as opposed to the mouse that roared.
To keep this thread real , I have to admit that I do things on my PC that may not be approved by corporate types , lets just leave it at that. I am not even a drop in the bucket compared to the millions that share the same desire.
Lo and behold , there is always a way , always an alternative.
XP was supposed to be the Windows that could not be cracked for want of a better term , boy that lasted long....
Every time Windows comes out with a "verification tool" there is a workaround , patch , fix for it in a day or so , Microsoft cannot win.
The guys that wrote those articles know too much for thier own good , they have quite effectivly convoluted themselves into a tizzy. Instead of looking at this "problem" from a corporate guy level , look at it from an underground level for a change and you will see hope.
Not hope that one can obtain free OS for the rest of his/her life but hope that nobody will ever truly control your media , at least as long as you do not want them to control it , educate yourself and become the guy with a sling to thier goliath.
There is always a way.
If not alternative OS (and you Mac lovers are insane if you think Apple will sit idly by while MS makes themselves out to look like THEE security OS , watch as Apple scrambles to compete , Apple - ever the malnourished dog licking up the scraps from MS bowl) Linux in all of it's glorious versions may be the way to go , look how long it took a ginormous Linux counter-culture to spring up , not long at all , Linux is huge in the underground world of PC's.
Control , that is what this is all about , control. And you can bet your fur that these types of controls we are only seeing the beginning of , from our money to our kids to the way we shop to what we drive to someday how we think , control so that the corporate jerkoffs can continue to make money hand over frickin fist and bollocks to your intellectual or physical freedom.
I am not anti corporate , I am not anti government , I am against anyone who imposes or attempts to impose thier authority over my entire life , I choose to give the amount of control that I choose to give , we must all force the "powers that be" to deal with us on our terms , not thiers.
That said, if you are unhappy with how Vista is coming out of the closet then educate yourself on an alternative but , remember they only have as much control as you choose to give them.
