Re: MS Vista

--- In PageStreamSupport@yahoogroups.com, Tim Doty
<drakki...> wrote:
>
> On Sunday 25 February 2007 09:27, Henry G Belot wrote:
> > John:
> > > ...Aside from bugs, drivers are not available
for everything 
yet, such as sound cards....
> >
> > If your meaning is that companies that make sound
cards don't 
have Vista drivers for them, the interesting thing here is
that in 
the big picture
> > Vista is supposed to make such third-party drivers
less 
necessary. It provides a broader array of on-board services
for 
devices like those, making separate drivers unnecessary or
at least 
simpler.
> 
> Vista may provide multimedia services, but this is
immaterial to 
needing drivers and the lack of drivers (or stable drivers)
right now 
is an issue for anyone wanting to use Vista. Vista's design
actually 
requires that more sound 
> drivers be developed because you can't provide an
industry standard 
chip and driver (like AC'97) -- to satisfy Vista's DRM
requirements 
it must be 
> individually detectable and disable-able. I don't have
links handy 
but googling on this should provide the relevant
information.


a good place for the horror story is here
http://www.grc.com
/securitynow.htm
or
http://www.twit.tv/SN
Check out SN 73-75 and 77



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