Vista, of course I need to comment!

Let me first start by saying that I hate the current copy-right schemes. They’re too restrictive, and they make everyone look like criminals, even those poor saps that dutifully pay for everything. After all, they’re the ones that suffer for it. Gogo Captain CD-Checker, Princess Fairplay and so on. Hell, if it was up to me and I didn’t have to worry about 50.000 employees ( like now! ) I’d make Vista the best software ever with the intention of being easy to use and amicable to the end-user instead of the content-providers. After all, they provide content which you buy with the intention of enjoying in relative peace and understanding, whereas you don’t buy a product that limits your experience, and locks down your computer. That is in my book not content, it’s jail-time. In my book ( my blog, my book ) you buy a product with the intention of owning it, without feeling owned by it in any way.

I read tech-blogs and stuff, reading up on people’s presentations of Vista, how glorious it is and how amazing the new looks are. I don’t give a shit about looks. I turned off the ugly goo in Windows XP and sometimes I don’t even have a background picture just to show how much I love plainlooking stuff. I read about how the new amazing-looking and super-secure OS limits the content on your computer based on what big bad corporations told MS to limit. Personally I think that’s bullshit. I asked in an interview with the norwegian MS rep in Norway on VG about why they don’t remove 98745987454 layers of copy-right protection, save millions and reduce the sales-price so that all my friends can buy the new OS instead of hunting for a free pirated version with less limitations imposed on them. I didn’t get an answer, he neatly skipped answering that question in favour of answering questions like “Will my computer run on ” which could easily have been answered with a link at the top of the whole thing sending them to their test-tool. I didn’t expect an answer, nor did I expect a full-blown explanation telling me why me and my views suck and how much I wrong. It’s still incredibly disappointing to see that they’re not even politically correct, and it’s disappointing that he didn’t answer.

Personally I think that a completely end-user compliant OS is impossible, but it feels less and less like they are trying to serve us, and more and more like they are serving themselves. That’s of course what they do but as I’ve said before, living in ignorance is pretty bliss. They wonder why they pirate Windows? Let me give an example which is one of many:
Would you buy an inferior product that barely does what you want it to do for alot of cash just because you have to or would you pirate it, get it for free and not having to worry about anything in the whole wide world because with all the cracks, hacks and screws added to it it works splendidly? In laymans terms this time; would you buy a 60 million dollar car that goes in 40km/hr because it’s so heavily laden with crap, blocks and jams it can’t get to its promised 1lightyear/hr? It’s a really bad representation, but it sure as hell feels like it.