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Originally Posted by Steve
I thought that was something to do with a chip on the motherboards and vista being able to communicate with it. If it is that which you are thinking about then at this time there are only a few manufacturers that have taken up the technology and so its not being utilised at all by them or MS.
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In truth I can't remember. I don't recall there being any specific hardware requirements.
Maybe you read the paper too. It was by a New Zealand IT professor type. He'd gone though Vista with a view to telling people why some of the DRM and vista components where a bad thing. His study was related to medical imaging but was relevant to all of us.
It was taken so seriously, MS made an attempt to spin it. Which he later debunked too
Ok found it: -
A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection
However it could be I misunderstood. This is about premium content and the ability to stop that content from reaching what is considered a bad device driver.
Doesn't seem to me to be a big leap of actually disabling the driver completly. And if you can do that for HD movies, why not for other things like drivers designed to allow pirating of software - Remember this wouldn't affect everyone - just those with the "illegal" driver.
It's a cynical leap on my part that they could do this. But at the end of the day, this is MS we are talking about. Cynicism abounds!