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[SR]Caveman · 10-04-2006, 05:06 PM

Well you are right about the Vista thing. I was watching "Click" a tech show on BBC news and they spoke about Vista. Apparently, the core operating system is not accessible by any 3rd party software. This is good because it does a whole lot to prevent infections etc however, it also prevents some programs that you may want to not function correctly. For instance, many of you will be happy to hear the SF cannot access the core operating system. But for the same reason, Kaspsersky cannot either.

So you are right that you do not have much of a choice here. However, this is not really DRM either. This is how the new OS Vista works. It prevents certain types of software (3rd party that require access to the core of the OP) from functioning correctly. But the reason is not a protection of DRM. It is to counter the insane amounts of hacking and security exploits in MS Windows. Windows has been beaten to a pulp by this for practically a decade.

But you are right in that your choice of OS is limited. It always has been limited to Windows. Nothing new there.

Would the world be better if there were multiple OS to choose from that were fairly evenly matched? They each had an equal market share? Yes because you would get more choice. But also no because development costs for games would skyrocket if they had to provide games on multiple platforms. I know there are multiple platforms now (Xbox, PS) but I mean that the PC market would fracture into many pieces. Right now you make a game and "x" number of people buy it on PC. With multiple platforms, "x" number of people are still buying it on PC but the developer has to do much more to put it on the different PC OS's.

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[SR]Caveman is on the 4th circle: Avarice & Prodigality Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 554 Hellbux: 21,424	Well you are right about the Vista thing. I was watching "Click" a tech show on BBC news and they spoke about Vista. Apparently, the core operating system is not accessible by any 3rd party software. This is good because it does a whole lot to prevent infections etc however, it also prevents some programs that you may want to not function correctly. For instance, many of you will be happy to hear the SF cannot access the core operating system. But for the same reason, Kaspsersky cannot either. So you are right that you do not have much of a choice here. However, this is not really DRM either. This is how the new OS Vista works. It prevents certain types of software (3rd party that require access to the core of the OP) from functioning correctly. But the reason is not a protection of DRM. It is to counter the insane amounts of hacking and security exploits in MS Windows. Windows has been beaten to a pulp by this for practically a decade. But you are right in that your choice of OS is limited. It always has been limited to Windows. Nothing new there. Would the world be better if there were multiple OS to choose from that were fairly evenly matched? They each had an equal market share? Yes because you would get more choice. But also no because development costs for games would skyrocket if they had to provide games on multiple platforms. I know there are multiple platforms now (Xbox, PS) but I mean that the PC market would fracture into many pieces. Right now you make a game and "x" number of people buy it on PC. With multiple platforms, "x" number of people are still buying it on PC but the developer has to do much more to put it on the different PC OS's. __________________ Community Manager - Stormregion Makers of Codename Panzers Phase 1 and 2 and Rush for Berlin Our latest title (Coming in March 2008) is: Codename Panzers Cold War Visit us at Stormregion! To find out more about who I am: http://www.stormregion.com/forum/viewtopic...2514e70186b414e