Windows Vista Beta 1

 

or

 

Microsoft Windows "Longhorn" Professional Edition Beta 1 - English/Microsoft Windows "Longhorn" Professional x64 Edition Beta 1 - English

 

Technet shipment is on its way, just wondered if any of you have tested these yet?

I haven't tested those (Would be fun to do it though ;)) But I've tested a really early version almost a year ago, I think it still was in alpha stage or something like that..

Windows Vista will have a lot of copyright protection stuff in it:-

 

http://news.com.com/Hollywood%2C+Microsoft+align+on+new+Windows/2100-1025_3-5844393.html?tag=nefd.lede

 

The idea is if some video media is being played that does not have a key then the monitor will turn off.

 

I suspect it wont be hugely hard to get around this. As DVD encrpytion is a doddle to get past with DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink.

Windows Vista will have a lot of copyright protection stuff in it:-

 

http://news.com.com/Hollywood%2C+Microsoft+align+on+new+Windows/2100-1025_3-5844393.html?tag=nefd.lede

 

The idea is if some video media is being played that does not have a key then the monitor will turn off.

 

I suspect it wont be hugely hard to get around this. As DVD encrpytion is a doddle to get past with DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink.

 

 

But the latest blueray or CDHD will be a lot harder to decrypt. DVDs use one encryption for the whole disc, but the blueray the encryption changes every few seconds.

if you can see something and you can hear something you can copy it

There is always a way around this stuff, and it's almost every time braked before the final release :)