November 16, 2006
Microsoft Vista, Zune and DRM
It’s nearly impossible to draw conclusions to Microsoft’s DRM and licensing strategies beyond the obvious realization that they’d like to get away with locking up as much as possible, often unreasonably so.
But Matt McKenzie does a good job in this CW article titled “Vista and More: Piecing Together Microsoft’s DRM Puzzle.” But how much pressure is Hollywood putting on Microsoft behind the scenes (or otherwise) to convince the Corp to tighten the debilitating DRM vice on it’s latest hardware and software and then run with it as a marketable (yet elastically defined) standard?
tuaw has nice screenshots of Zune and what it does in this review.
Has anyone bothered to splurge on one of these so-called iPod-killers? I’d also love to hear exactly what kind of new restrictions come with the 600 dollars Sony PS3 systems.
