One of the newsletters I read each week is the Clif Notes Newsletter.

This week, Clif had a link to a great Vista cartoon at ctrlaltdel-online.com.

Thanks for the grin, Clif. I’m pretty sure anyone trying to change to Vista is going to recognize the feeling.

George Ou has a great article on Windows Vista bugs at Tech Republic (www.techrepublic.com).

Check out his Long list of Vista bugs that will keep me off Vista

Peter Gutmann has written a very disturbing analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection and has made it available on the web.

The article is available on the University of Auckland’s School of Computer Science web site and appears to be either a term paper or an article for publication.

Rather than get into the politics of DRM (digital rights management, a.k.a. digital restrictions management), the article discusses the Vista content protection specification and its impact on existing audio and video systems.

Hint: you won’t get high-quality output because Vista will downgrade the signal

I especially liked the “Executive Executive Summary,” which said:

The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history.