Peter Gutman, a PhD in New Zealand with a huge, huge background in crypto has finished a eye-popping analysis of Vista's hidden costs.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut00...vista_cost.txt
Real informative. Before I read this, I thought of Vista as an OS security enhancement that was broken by design. Now I see I was wrong. Vista is a reworking of core OS components to provide copy protection for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray content - and THAT is broken by design as well.
Like the idea of your OS deciding if 24-bit audio is okay to use, or if you can use your SPDIF outs? If that's not annoying enough, what about the OS SUDDENLY deciding, in mid session, to shut down those outs or throttle back the bitrate on you?
This is looking like the biggest pile of suck in a very long time.
-r