Windows 7 Gets More Locked Down

This is just one more reason I’m glad I switched my main computer to a Macintosh.

I’d thought about building a new PC, just for the fun.

By the time it would be finished, I’d probably buy Windows 7.

Now I think I’ll just save up and buy another Macintosh instead.

[...] Windows 7 is getting even more locked down. [...]

It will change you can count on that

[...] More here: Windows 7 Gets More Locked Down ~ Revelations From An Unwashed Brain [...]

micro$ can’t even get the clipboard right.
I use a third party ver. ( m8 multi-clipboard )
Can edit clips and even has a basic editor for photo captures. Can save up to 25 clips.

I’m still using XP Pro and am in the process of building a dedicated machine for Ubuntu.
Except for XP updates, I’m through with micro$!

I would respond to this, but the comments range from unimformed to absurd.

Stop reading forum speculation and go read the development docs, they’re all available at msdn.com

Kitty, strange, because when I look at the Microsoft (any) site(s), all I see is propaganda going from mild to totally outrageous, and FUD.

Hello,

It is important to keep in mind that “build 7057″ is an internal build of Windows 7 that leaked. As such, treating anything in it as official would not be a good idea. Software developers often release test versions of software with features missing or locked down because those areas of the code are not the ones to be tested or because they are unstable outside of the supplied configuration. I suspect this leaked build of Windows 7 is nothing more.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Hmm, build 7057 leaked…. I think not. If it was leaked, it was an intentional leak. Well, may be not, come to think of it, Microsoft’s internal security may have a lot in common with Windows software security. Poor… at its best.

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This article makes a good point, but I believe that we are all forgetting that what was being tested was only a beta version of the operating system. Apparently if the incompatibility of third party stuff irritates the consumers, Microsoft will most definitely NOT make them incompatible (or most of them anyway). I believe that, while this information is useful, we underestimate the manufacturers’ logic.

Squeakurs, let me put it this way… Windows 3.0, Microsoft Bob, Windows Me, Vista - do you see a pattern? I coiuld start further back, and include DOS 4.0 - so bad that Microsoft had to really hustle to get DOS 4.01 out, because the problems were so bad.

I don’t think anyone would lose money by underestimating the logic of Microsoft - because there is very little.

We speak of how complex all the problems are, trying to make certain that an operating system works with hardware and other software, which is true - but then if Microsoft had such intelligence, the company wouldn’t repeat the same errors over and over.

I certainly hope win7 won’t block 3rd party video applications. I never use WMP and prefer VLV or MPC with other codec supports. WMP is horribly bloated and insists on helping me by calling home constantly. The third party video players do just what I need done and no more.

Perhaps the apparent lockdown is the continuing effort for DRM controls. Eventually the industry will understand that DRM is impossible to achieve.

HarryH, it is really going to depend if those players get programmed to install in the prescribed Microsoft manner.

Microsoft is so busy saving everyone from everything that soon it will be saving us all from using Windows. (When you make something idiotproof, only idiots will want to use it.)