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to: Geo
from: John Beamish
date: 2006-12-23 12:08:00
subject: Re: A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

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From: "John Beamish" 

They did.  You just don't understand who MS's users are.

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:00:53 -0500, Geo  wrote:

> "mike"  wrote in message
> news:h67po2ltuq7curjlamk1r18mj3lpbqjoin{at}4ax.com...
>>
>> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
>>
>>
>> "...The Vista Content Protection specification could very well
>> constitute the longest suicide note in history...."
>
> Gee, if only they had spent half this effort on adding features for the
> users...
>
> Geo.
>
>

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