Peter Gutman (who is a rather well-known and respected security researcher) recently published A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection looking at some of the costs and changes being forced on hardware vendors by Microsoft's design of Windows Vista. Sadly, these costs are going to affect all of us, whether we use Vista or not. But this sort of nonsense is why I'm ready to ditch Microsoft - and certainly won't be "upgrading" any of my computers to Vista.