AMIGA OS is dead and so every other OS not being VISTA.. check this out

[AJCopland]

WPF is interesting but to be honest all the DRM {bleep} is pushing me firmly towards Linux.

I'm a software engineer at a games company and we're even thinking of switching some of our apps from DirectX 9 to OpenGL as it gives you access to DX10 effects and hardware under WindowsXP without having to switch to the Vista bloatware, plus it could give us portability to Linux and Mac.

Mostly though i'm ok with the current state of the Amiga and it's OS just for hobby use. I gave up on hopes of a Next Generation Amiga that could take over the computing market many many years ago and as most people keep trying to very patiently point out to you it isn't going to happen.

So why are you here? Just trying to get us remaining Amiga user to give up and all switch to Vista? I mean does that make any sense?

Yay Vista will do lots of shiny things, and like previous versions of Windows it WILL JUST WORK, and in a much easier/user friendly manner than Linux, but who cares? This in case you hadn't noticed is an AMIGA website.

Andy

[AJCopland]

@DonnyEMU
Labelling everyone who has a problem with DRM as a thief/pirate is a bit harsh, i have a problem with DRM because of the technology and principles behind it not with what it hopes to achieve! (i.e: protecting peoples copyrighted works == good, preventing fair use == bad and when protecting copyright supercedes fair use then it's gone too far.)

Also DRM isn't a safety feature it's a technology lock-in method. There's nothing "unsafe" about watching pirated HD video and purchased HD video :-D

Personally i think that Vista will/is be a huge leap forward.

I do object to trolling about it on an Amiga forum however and peoples comments regarding it being a resource hog ARE well founded. Just because you can run it on a lower spec machine doesn't mean that you're getting many of the benefits of doing so.

Andy