You people need to chill out. The operating system JUST came out, give it a month, or two, and Nvidia will have much better drivers for Vista (Have to realize that drivers don't just drop out of the sky, historically, Nvidia has been better with drivers than ATI. ATI's drivers are generally crap). I love the impatience of the inexperianced when it comes to anything dealing with computers or any other technology. Kids seem to think that new drivers, graphics cards, CPU's etc, are grown in trees and then just plucked at will. Sheesh

I think it's fairly foolish to think that if Microsoft were to completely take the DRM out of their operating system, that you wouldn't be subjugated to the DRM anyway. HDCP content protection is already a reality, and if Microsoft hadn't built the DRM into their operating system, you'd just have to install a program to play the protected media anyway, which would tax your system far more than having it built in. In the same vein, even if Vista didn't have the DRM, you would still need an HDCP monitor and graphics card, or the media companies (RIAA/MPAA) wouldn't let you play their protected content anyway. While I agree that the real enemy is the RIAA and the MPAA (as far as the "Digital Rights War" goes) I think the author of the article is correct in saying that Microsoft really didn't have a choice, or rather, they had a choice between making EVERYONE a party to the DRM, as opposed to just the people that wanted to play "Premium Content" (That would have had to install DRM, get an HDCP monitor and graphics card, before playing premium content anyway).

DRM is foolish, noone (except those that stand to profit) would argue otherwise, but it's here, it's happening, and Microsoft is only a small pawn this time around. If you don't like it, don't upgrade.

I beta tested RC1 and RC2 of Vista and I have to say that I loved it, and I would absolutely love to have the finished product, after all that testing XD. Good luck to everyone.

I've still got SBCyahoo from before their merger with AT&T and since the merger the only difference is that they added a 9mbit "Elite" connection to (I suppose) combat Comcast's 12mbit connections they've just rolled out here (Midwest).

I'm afraid that with this monopoly they will eventually buy Comcast (I wonder if that is possible) and then they will literally be the only ISP in the entire midwest (Other than Time Warner, but that is another mess entirely, and we don't get that here).

What are they doing in Washington? This new Congress should axe this merger immediatly.

All the 5.1 headphones I've tried in the past have been junk, I doubt these are any different. Save your money, wait for reviews.

I love it how if you post in favor of a microsoft product, any product, be it windows, the Xbox, etc, you are immediatly some sort of Microsoft employee or troll. I got the original Xbox very late, so late infact that I bought it to play Halo 2. I use XP, but so does the majority, and I now own an Xbox 360. If everyone with this set of circumstances were to be an employee of microsoft, Microsoft would gain a few million employees.

This lawsuit is a very thinly veiled attempt at milking some money out of Microsoft. The bringer of the lawsuit probably got one of those "You don't pay if we don't win your case" lawyers to avoid paying them (obviously he's a cheapskate) unless he hits the jackpot with microsoft.

To summarize 3 pages of posts; His console was probably modded, the security devices taken off, or some other combination of things that are his fault. You break your warranty by modding, you pay the price when something goes wrong. Tough luck.

This lawsuit is ridiculous. The bricking problem is not that severe, and not that widespread. Google with the syntax "Internet Echo Chamber" and you will find out why. One person reports a problem, it gets posted on every blog, and suddenly it sounds like 50 people reported the problem. I updated my 360, and everyone on my friends list did aswell, and none of them had any problems. It's absolutely guaranteed that an update is going to cause problems for somebody somewhere, and in this case maybe it happened to the guy that is bringing the lawsuit, but class action lawsuits were designed so that hundreds if not thousands of people could come together with their claim and avoid killing themselves with their own personal lawyer fees; not for one guy who is a little pissed off to do so. More than likely this will end with a fixed Xbox 360, a dropped lawsuit, and the whiner getting on with his life.

This would be extremely sweet when coupled with the DVI connection on my vid card/TV, but having said that, I'll already have a Blu-Ray player when the PS3 comes out. Do I really need two formats to watch HD content in? Especially when there really aren't that many movies out In-HD anyway? If microsoft could make this thing an HD-DVD BURNER then it would be an insanely good deal, but think about this for a second folks. For 450 you get an aesthetically pleasing box, a video scaling chip (very important, and the Xbox 360 doesn't have one), Lots of inputs on the back of the device, and remember, console add-on media players have always, ALWAYS been crappy.

I think MSoft should have waited till after the PS3 launch to put this thing out. All it says to consumers is "Well, you can have our system for 400, but if you want HD movies you will pay 600, so you might aswell have got a PS3" and that isn't a very good marketing strategy.

"I got em! HAN I GOT EM!!!"

Xbox Media Center with a 250gb HDD (for all legal content that I own)