Make box makers use a non GUI OS

[Pathos]

Do consumers want DRM?

customers do not prefer DRM but the success of itunes shows there are levels of DRM they are willing to accept.

[WMD]

Consumers have probably never heard of DRM.  How much you wanna bet?

[Aloone_Jonez]

Er DRM, what's that, does it make my PC faster or something? :rolleyes:

[piratePenguin]

Er DRM, what's that, does it make my PC faster or something?

Yes.

And it's free! (how..... wrong)

[toadlife]

Consumers don't really "want" anything - it's just given to them, and it is what it is.  If a bunch of OEMs put forth this plan, that would just be what people "want" - perhaps with somewhat of a delay for software companies to catch up.

Let me put it this way. Consumers want what will run their software - and when I say consumers, I'm talking about 98% of consumers who don't even know what an Operating System is, let alone that their is more than one to choose from.

[Aloone_Jonez]

let alone that their is more than one to choose from.

Nearly everyone knows that, there's Windows ME, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Pro, Windows XP Corporate and Windows 2003 and you can also buy a Macintosh.

[Lead Head]

Nearly everyone knows that, there's Windows ME, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Home Pro, Windows XP Corporate and Windows 2003 and you can also buy a Macintosh.

Don't forget win2000;)

[toadlife]

Nearly everyone knows that, there's Windows ME, Windows XP Home, Windows XP Pro, Windows XP Corporate and Windows 2003 and you can also buy a Macintosh.

I see you get my point then.

But I must add - a signifigant portion of computer users dont even know that there are different version of Windows. All they know is that it runs "Windows". If I called 20 people here are work and asked them what version of Windows they were running (pretty much everyone runs XP), probbaly 15 of them wouldnt have a clue. When I someetimes do side work, and I ask people what version of Windows they are running, almost invariably, they cant tell me because they have no clue.

[Aloone_Jonez]

One of my sister's friends though the version of Windows determines how good your PC is.  :rolleyes:

[mobrien_12]

Close. The answer is actually that consumers don't want this.

No, MS doesn't want this.  MS wants every PC to look exactly the same way when it boots up.

[WMD]

Let me put it this way. Consumers want what will run their software....

Yeah.  I accounted for that in the last sentence of my post.

[piratePenguin]

Microsoft wants what will make them money. Only if something makes them money they'll do it. If there's something that would make them money and they're not doing it, they just haven't discovered it yet.

[Aloone_Jonez]

customers do not prefer DRM but the success of itunes shows there are levels of DRM they are willing to accept.

The most annoying thing about DRM is when I've spent ages downloading a porno from p2p and it turns out to be DRMd. :mad:  I don't suppose there's a way to crack it, if anyone knows of a way then can you please PM me.

[toadlife]

The most annoying thing about DRM is when I've spent ages downloading a porno from p2p and it turns out to be DRMd. :mad:  I don't suppose there's a way to crack it, if anyone knows of a way then can you please PM me.

You've been officially 'sigged'.

:thumbup:

[Aloone_Jonez]

W00t!