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Tiesto diggs Microsoft, helps promote Windows Vista

Dutch trance DJ and dedicated businessman, Tiesto, has recently collaborated with software giant Microsoft on a new appliacation that takes the full advantage of Microsoft's recently launched Windows Vista operating system. The application, which will easily integrate onto your Vista desktop apparently allows to stay up-to-date with the latest Tiesto news in both an innovative and interactive way, as well as follow him on tour in a dynamic surrounding. You can also listen to the music and watch the videos in your own virtual DJ booth. People who have already installed Vista OS on their computers can download the application for free on tiesto.com. All we can say is that his is a very smart PR stunt from both Tiesto and Microsoft. But the question remains unanswered: how much he got paid for this? According to CNN, the software giant is apparently spending USD $500 million on Vista marketing campaign. What about Reebok?

I don't know if it's even confirmed Tiesto worked with Microsoft to do it...I mean his management could have just saw an opportunity to get a head start on a new technology. Unless everyone that makes a Gadget automatically got paid by Microsoft to do it

Awesome! I'm totally gonna buy Vista now!

FYI, Vista is awful.

lol @ his shoes and new vista software.

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Originally posted by Jeffree FYI, Vista is awful.

Actually for me, it's great. Performs much better than XP, looks good. Haven't had any compatibility problems...only problem is the ATI Catalyst and X-Fi drivers are a bit early. Still can do everything I could before with them, but not as fast or faster yet.

it's vista os x and now it's the microsoft phone.

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Originally posted by sunchild it's vista os x and now it's the microsoft phone.

Yeah that was my main gripe with it was that it uses more resources than XP, just to look more like OS X. If I wanted a mac, I'd buy one. (I do and I will)

So Microsoft is teaming up with Tiesto to attack the P2P market that is hot and heavy amongst EDM listeners. EDM listeners now have a reason to upgrade...am I right? VISTA has anti P2P loopholes doesnt it, unless of course it goes through VISTA's checks and balances.

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Originally posted by MoBreakz So Microsoft is teaming up with Tiesto to attack the P2P market that is hot and heavy amongst EDM listeners. EDM listeners now have a reason to upgrade...am I right? VISTA has anti P2P loopholes doesnt it, unless of course it goes through VISTA's checks and balances.

no need for vista... there's plenty of p2p's... soulseek is best =]

vista is great overall, but it has that thing about "geniune contract" or whatever its called. gotta admit its smart in a way so people dont steal their products. hate it or love it, microsofts a great company and a great product, but some people will always bitch about it. now that others are getting into microsofts game, microsoft is also doing robotics.

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Originally posted by MoBreakz So Microsoft is teaming up with Tiesto to attack the P2P market that is hot and heavy amongst EDM listeners. EDM listeners now have a reason to upgrade...am I right? VISTA has anti P2P loopholes doesnt it, unless of course it goes through VISTA's checks and balances.

I have no idea what you are talking about...are you saying Vista has anti-P2P stuff built in or something?

vista has some of the most intrusive DRM (digital rights management) technology integrated into it that has ever been written.....to the point of being borderline illegal. It's not just anti-P2P, it's anti-fair use of things you legitimately own.

I will NEVER voluntarily install Vista on any system of mine, at least not in the next few years. Until applications really NEED DirectX 10, there's no reason to "upgrade."

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Originally posted by progressiveMOJO vista has some of the most intrusive DRM (digital rights management) technology integrated into it that has ever been written.....to the point of being borderline illegal. It's not just anti-P2P, it's anti-fair use of things you legitimately own.

that will all be cracked shortly.

I really see the whole DRM writing pointless. I mean, there will be people willing to be paid to write the code, and then on the other hand you have people who HATE everything microsoft and will crack it. We all should just accept the fact that it is never going away and move on...

lest we forget the XP cracked in 24hrs case...

the only people that DRM hurts are legitimate owners. it's just about always cracked very quickly if anyone cares. the people who will pirate things will keep on pirating them, DRM is only a minor annoyance and not an actual obstacle. They'll use off-brand hardware if necessary (part of why I use an iRiver mp3 player is that it doesn't have any built-in DRM system whatsoever, unlike creative, sony, and apple (yes, ipod) players), they write software to do what they want, etc.

DRM makes things more expensive to manufacture and develop. Since pirates don't pay anything (the whole point of piracy), the people who suffer from this are legitimate purchasers who have to pay more to get the same thing. This leads to people not buying as much, because things get artificially more expensive than they should be.

Occasional attempts at physical/hardware DRM almost always end in disaster. Take Starforce for instance. It required a CD to have specific physical coding on it, that would be present if a CD had been legitimately pressed in a factory but not if it had been burned at home (or if an .iso was made and mounted via daemon tools or the like). Problem is, the software driver for Starforce had to permanently write itself into the BIOS of your optical drive, and into the code of your operating system. It did this without asking permission from the user, and it did it in a non-reversible manner. The only way to get rid of it was to reformat your computer or buy a new optical drive. And guess what? It killed drives. A lot of them. There were so many reports of *legitimate purchasers* having their hardware destroyed, meaning that their DVD drives wouldn't read any disc, Starforce or not, properly no matter what, that Starforce protection essentially disappeared.

Other forms of hardware DRM are borderline violations of the DCMA, such as the idea of "trusted computing," and virtually all of them require a user to have hardware installed that's maunfactured specifically for it. This is also more expensive, and I'd like you to name me just ONE person who will pay more money for a machine that artificially restricts what he can and cannot do, especially when right next to it on the shelves is a cheaper product that does more.

So in the end, DRM doesn't slow piracy at all. It even probably creates pirates, because people get pissed at not being able to easily use what they already own . It raises prices and hurts sales. Someday the major compaines will realize that what people want is DRM Free software, media, and hardware, and things will be better for everyone.

i just used vista for the first time today on a notebook preinstalled with vista with only 512MB RAM and boy i tell you, that thing took LONG to load plus it felt like 10 applications were running. but once open, everything seemed ok.

i, just as most americans, will not switch to vista anytime this year nor next year.

Yeah vista is pretty much a joke. Is it as bad as windows ME though?

OS X Leopard is Vista 2.0.

But I'll stop there...don't want to sound like a fanboy or anything. ;P

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