As a result, you??™ll only be able to use
your analog audio outputs when watching HD content, and that expensive
sound card you just bought is now trash. Why would Microsoft hobble an
important feature? For you, the consumer? Of course not. Vista??™s contentprotection
feature is intended to appease piracy-wary movie studios, so
Microsoft won??™t be left behind as the home theater industry finds new ways
to rake in cash. And ironically, Microsoft boasts ???content protection??? as a
feature of Vista.
Would Microsoft be making decisions like these if it had to compete fairly
for your business? After Europe??™s second-highest court upheld a ruling that
Microsoft had abused its market power and stifled innovation, Neelie Kroes,
the European Union competition commissioner, stated that ???the court has
confirmed the commission??™s view that consumers are suffering at the hands
of Microsoft.???
So that leaves us lowly Vista users with a choice: do we continue to suffer
with Windows??™ shortcomings, or take matters into our own hands?
Of Bugs and Features
The point of this book is to help you solve problems. Sometimes those problems
are the result of bad design, such as the aforementioned shortcomings
of Vista??™s search tool, and sometimes the problems are caused by bugs.
Take the Blue Screen of Death, a Windows mainstay for more than a decade.
Yes, it??™s still alive and well in Vista, but now it has a cousin: the Green Ribbon
of Death.
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