Comments on: Microsoft Finally Got The Memo http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2010/02/12/microsoft-finally-got-the-memo/ Miscellaneous ramblings on miscellaneous topics Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:18:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ploni Almoni http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2010/02/12/microsoft-finally-got-the-memo/comment-page-1/#comment-3564 Ploni Almoni Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:03:53 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/?p=2254#comment-3564 <p>Good prognostication, because five years from now, it might be called OS XI, not OS X. ;-) Either that, or it will be only the iPhone/iPad developer's-workstation OS, even if not in name, by then. It's clear that that's the future of Apple, if they can manage to sell enough iPads.</p> Good prognostication, because five years from now, it might be called OS XI, not OS X. ;-) Either that, or it will be only the iPhone/iPad developer’s-workstation OS, even if not in name, by then. It’s clear that that’s the future of Apple, if they can manage to sell enough iPads.

]]> By: Head Geek http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2010/02/12/microsoft-finally-got-the-memo/comment-page-1/#comment-3563 Head Geek Sun, 14 Feb 2010 07:48:13 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/?p=2254#comment-3563 <p>Windows essentially didn't have any copy protection until 2006. There was just the serial number you had to enter, and that was easy to get around, there were lists of them posted all over the 'net. In an uncharacteristically smart move, Microsoft put off copy protection as long as they could, and longer than their investors might wish.</p> <p>OS X can get away with having no copy protection right now, because Apple isn't the de facto standard operating system. I can practically guarantee that they'll add it eventually, though I don't see it happening in the next five years (which is as far as I'm willing to prognosticate).</p> Windows essentially didn’t have any copy protection until 2006. There was just the serial number you had to enter, and that was easy to get around, there were lists of them posted all over the ‘net. In an uncharacteristically smart move, Microsoft put off copy protection as long as they could, and longer than their investors might wish.

OS X can get away with having no copy protection right now, because Apple isn’t the de facto standard operating system. I can practically guarantee that they’ll add it eventually, though I don’t see it happening in the next five years (which is as far as I’m willing to prognosticate).

]]> By: Ploni Almoni http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/2010/02/12/microsoft-finally-got-the-memo/comment-page-1/#comment-3562 Ploni Almoni Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:03:30 +0000 http://geekblog.oakcircle.com/?p=2254#comment-3562 <p>Hmm, do you think they'll get rid of the DRM copy protection altogether, like OS X, which never had it and probably never will? :-) (Of course, it has another type of copy protection, it's meant to only run on certain types of computers, to be fair. Though as you know, that particular protection is broken rather easily.)</p> Hmm, do you think they’ll get rid of the DRM copy protection altogether, like OS X, which never had it and probably never will? :-) (Of course, it has another type of copy protection, it’s meant to only run on certain types of computers, to be fair. Though as you know, that particular protection is broken rather easily.)

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