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Yes.MRD said:DRM riddled crippleware. Avoid at all costs imo.
Captain Newbie said:Yes.
There are more important issues for OS writers to tackle than digital rights (wrongs?) management. Issues like stability, security, hardware support, and 64-bitness, in my opinion. If DRM is made an irremovable part of Microsoft Windows, I think I'll abandon it entirely--including gaming.
Ebola said:DRM is going to be built into future hardware so your screwed anyway. Your Linux kernel won't save you now. And MRD, you can stop trolling. You post in just about every Windows thread saying it sucks. Get a life.
jnev_89 said:i went to a show where they had the beta 2 running on one of their pc's. it was a huge POS imo. lookedexactly like winxp with a nice-looking skin on it. not to mention that it ran slower than xp does. also, the vector-image system that's supposed to let you stretch your images/icons as much as you want without quality-loss, while it somewhat works, takes so long that it's not even worth it. plus as MRD mentioned, it has drm up its ***. i'll be sticking with linux and winxp if i need it.
Captain Newbie said:I would not put it past the, shall we say, "less-than-reputable" parts of the computer world, to find a way around the DRM. I still don't like it.