XP and Vista question

[Martin Blackman]

Not sure if this link has already been posted but here is a
fascinating analysis of the costs & repercussions of Vista's DRM

http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html#author

There are many nice quotes in the article, here is just one-
"Because Windows dominates the market and device vendors are unlikely
to design and manufacture two different versions of their products,
non-Windows users will be paying for Windows Vista content-protection
measures in products even if they never run Windows on them."