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In Reply to: Microsoft Vista - coding from the dark side posted by cornfeded on January 8, 2007 at 12:36:32:
This comment was a real howler:*** it's no longer possible to create one-size-fits-all
drivers for an entire range of devices like the current
Catalyst/Detonator/ForceWare drivers. ***Someone obviously forgot to tell ATI and NVidia, because NVidia has released production versions of Vista x32 and x64 Forceware unified drivers on January 4, and ATI's unified driver is in beta test. Realtek has also released production unified audio drivers.
I suspect this article was written a while ago (despite the Jan 4 last updated date). The author poses a question:
*** Has anyone actually been able to *play* HD-DVD or Blu-Ray content
(i.e. the material that Vista classes as premium content) under Windows? If
so, what HD drive, player software, graphics card, and monitor did you use? ***Cyberlink released PowerDVD Ultra a few weeks ago, which allow HD-DVD and Blu-Ray playback on both XP and Vista, and lots of users are reporting no issues with playback (using the Xbox 360 HDDVD drive). LG has announced at CES a PC drive that supports both BluRay and HDDVD playback (but it only burns BluRay so it's not quite the ultimate universal optical drive).
Anyway, by coincidence, Microsoft sent me nice email yesterday announcing they have just shipped Vista to me (via MSDN) so I'll look forward to Vista disabling my SP/DIF output when I play the DSTOM SACD and turning my non HDCP graphics card into a "brick." Someone, I don't think that will happen, but hey I'm prepared to be surprised.
Follow Ups:
Only time will tell what Vista actually holds.I think expectations are rather low, hopefully Vista will exceed them.
The Golden Rule is - never install Version 1.0 - wait for a version update or service pack.From what I can tell, there's very little in Vista that excites me, but when my copy arrives I'll install it and play around with it. But there's no certified drivers for most of my hardware anyway so realistically I can't actually use Vista in production for a few months yet.
But I don't think Vista is as bad as that article claims - I suspect most of the information in the article is culled from information divulged in WinHEC 2005 and are probably out of date. And most of the really scary things (like disabling or downconverting content to analog outputs) are also planned for consumer devices - so Microsoft's hand is kind of forced - Microsoft wants to be a leader in consumer electronics, and unfortunately that means trying to be compliant to the ever more draconian restrictions being proposed by Hollywood and the RIAA.
I'll agree with your golden Rule and say, should be a minimum.I decided years ago, that I just wasn't upgrading to any MS OS until the second service pack came out.
Been a good decision for me.
I guess I could go for service pack 1 if there was a compelling reason - or benefit.
So far, hadn't seen anything that compelling -
Gotta admit, though, I have yet to see the "blue screen of death" with XP Pro.
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