From: Mike '/m' 

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 18:20:18 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>"Tony Williams"  wrote in message
>news:43501088$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> That might have been the case 10 years ago, but I think people's
>> tolerance for these sort of games is less nowadays. I expect to see
>> disappointing (for MS) sales of upgrades if Vista is crippled on non-DRM
>> hardware; that leaves preloads on new systems, which is where I'm a
>> little less optimistic. That's where we'll see just how strong the
>> preload monopoly is these days.
>
>Pretty much all DVD players are crippleware, but people upgraded from VHS to
>DVD anyway because of the quality. It's going to be the same situation here,
>to get HD-DVD compatibility you are going to have to buy HD-DVD compatible
>hardware or look at fuzzy or blank screen.

At some point the exploited may become aware of the exploitation.  At some
other point, the exploited will decided that they do not like being
exploited.

We are already seeing such a push back with the slow upgrades from MS
Office '97 and from Windows 2000.

 /m

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