Comments on: Windows Vista Home/Pro/Etc Under One Roof…sort of. http://www.fansoftech.com/2006/01/12/windows-vista-homeproetc-under-one-roofsort-of/ Web. Gadgets. Tech. Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:43:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: something http://www.fansoftech.com/2006/01/12/windows-vista-homeproetc-under-one-roofsort-of/comment-page-1/#comment-76 something Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:48:00 +0000 http://www.fansoftech.com/?p=55#comment-76 "I wonder if they will move towards a Steam-style delivery method. All your details are held on their server, if you want extra it’s downloaded and decrypted, and any updates are taken care of automatically as and when they become available." That's what I'm afraid of... Although, I must say, I'm looking forward to Vista. Extremely quick search, beautiful interface, excellent Windows Explorer navigation and new Start menu, brilliant integrated media player. Basically, everything I SHOULD have had with XP. “I wonder if they will move towards a Steam-style delivery method. All your details are held on their server, if you want extra it’s downloaded and decrypted, and any updates are taken care of automatically as and when they become available.”

That’s what I’m afraid of…

Although, I must say, I’m looking forward to Vista. Extremely quick search, beautiful interface, excellent Windows Explorer navigation and new Start menu, brilliant integrated media player. Basically, everything I SHOULD have had with XP.

]]> By: envelope http://www.fansoftech.com/2006/01/12/windows-vista-homeproetc-under-one-roofsort-of/comment-page-1/#comment-75 envelope Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:21:09 +0000 http://www.fansoftech.com/?p=55#comment-75 If all of the features are provided on the DVD, it won't take very long at all for someone to extract them and post them up for download, or post a tutorial on how to do it yourself. Even if they require activation, that too can be bypassed, just as with XP now. But no need to worry about all of that... as with the last versions of Windows there will be a Corporate edition, and in the case of Vista this will likely be the "Ultimate" edition with all features unlocked. The copy protection on Windows is there to stop the average customer copying an install CD and giving it to the neighbour. For the minority of people who know what they are doing, activation is best bypassed by using a copy that has no activation. Or, for XP, just grab a CD key off the back of a company machine, seeing as they have a volume license and all of those Pro keys are going to waste. :) But overall, it's an interesting shift towards paying extra for functionality. It will be interesting to see if any basic functionality requires an upgrade, or whether it really will be "extra for extra." If the base system does everything you need, and comes in at a reasonable cost, people may find pirating less appealing - if they charged £30-50 for Windows not many people could complain. I wonder if they will move towards a Steam-style delivery method. All your details are held on their server, if you want extra it's downloaded and decrypted, and any updates are taken care of automatically as and when they become available. If all of the features are provided on the DVD, it won’t take very long at all for someone to extract them and post them up for download, or post a tutorial on how to do it yourself. Even if they require activation, that too can be bypassed, just as with XP now.

But no need to worry about all of that… as with the last versions of Windows there will be a Corporate edition, and in the case of Vista this will likely be the “Ultimate” edition with all features unlocked.

The copy protection on Windows is there to stop the average customer copying an install CD and giving it to the neighbour. For the minority of people who know what they are doing, activation is best bypassed by using a copy that has no activation.

Or, for XP, just grab a CD key off the back of a company machine, seeing as they have a volume license and all of those Pro keys are going to waste. :)

But overall, it’s an interesting shift towards paying extra for functionality. It will be interesting to see if any basic functionality requires an upgrade, or whether it really will be “extra for extra.” If the base system does everything you need, and comes in at a reasonable cost, people may find pirating less appealing – if they charged £30-50 for Windows not many people could complain.

I wonder if they will move towards a Steam-style delivery method. All your details are held on their server, if you want extra it’s downloaded and decrypted, and any updates are taken care of automatically as and when they become available.

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