Hasta La VISTA Consumer Freedom and Privacy - MS Vista Is Here

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Stopping Vista adoption by promoting free software
The BadVista campaign is an advocate for the freedom of computer users, opposing adoption of Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free (as in freedom) software alternatives.

After my brief research I came to the conclusion: Hasta La Vista Microsoft Vista! Who cares about Vista and who needs Vista?

Simply said: Vista owners are forced to give Microsoft THE RIGHT TO AUTOMATICALLY REMOVE ANY SOFTWARE MICROSOFT RATES HIGH RISK OR SEVERE FROM ANY VISTA OWNER’S COMPUTER WITHOUT THE OWNER’S KNOWLEDGE OR PERMISSION!
This is an unprecedented loss of privacy for consumers and individuals!
IF you wish to have more security holes, less privacy, less available RAM and system resources, less money in your pocket and having to apply endless patches after patches MICROSOFT VISTA IS THE RIGHT OPERATING SYSTEM FOR YOU!

I came across the following articles during my research:

excerpt from Vista’s legal fine print raises red flags:
When I booted the laptop I sat watching the screen, it had some great graphics on the boot up screen, but it became quite apparent that this operating system took a lot more time than Windows XP did when it booted.

One of the things that annoyed me right away was the pop ups that ask if you want to do this or that, the permission thing drove me nuts after a few minutes and if I owned the computer that would be the first thing that I would turn off.

Will I up grade to Vista, nope, I will upgrade to PCLinuxOS 2007 being released around the end of this month, it is coming out with 3d, (Yes I know Vista has that) it has translucency (yes I know Vista has that) it has beautiful eye candy, (yes I know Vista has that) and it also comes with a complete General User Interface, in other words you don�t need to use a command line tool, (yes I know, Vista does that as well) it also is FREE! (I no, Vista does not do that)

excerpt from Vista Speech Recognition:
First of all, a bit of introduction: Vista, the successor of XP, comes by default with builtin speech recognition engine. This is really cool, although security researchers has found that malicious sites can use this feature to instruct the targeted computer to download a particular executable and run it. All you need in order to do that is to make the victim go to a particular website that has embedded audio which plays on page load. If the victim happens to be unlucky and have their speakers on, you can give commands to their PC to perform the desires actions.

excerpt from Vista’s legal fine print raises red flags:
“Vista’s legal fine print includes extensive provisions granting Microsoft the right to regularly check the legitimacy of the software and holds the prospect of deleting certain programs without the user’s knowledge. During the installation process, users “activate” Vista by associating it with a particular computer or device and transmitting certain hardware information directly to Microsoft.”

Vista also incorporates Windows Defender, an anti-virus program that actively scans computers for “spyware, adware, and other potentially unwanted software.” The agreement does not define any of these terms, leaving it to Microsoft to determine what constitutes unwanted software.

Once operational, the agreement warns that Windows Defender will, by default, automatically remove software rated “high” or “severe,” even though that may result in other software ceasing to work or mistakenly result in the removal of software that is not unwanted.

excerpt from Why Vista is defective by design:
The problem is that, while piracy is real, Hollywood and ilk make the assumption that everyone in the entire world is guilty until proven innocent. Apparently it’s all too hard to do the right thing, so why not just treat everyone as guilty and be done with it?

It doesn’t matter if you legitimately purchased your DVD or CD, it doesn’t matter if you wish to format shift this product you own to another device you own, and doesn’t matter that you routinely go out and buy more music and movies to enjoy — you’re a criminal, deal with it.

excerpt from Hacker highlights gaping Vista security hole:
Rutkowska wrote on her Invisible Things blog: “That means that if you downloaded some freeware Tetris game, you will have to run its installer as administrator, giving it full access to all your file system and registry, and allowing it to load kernel drivers! Why should a Tetris installer be allowed to load kernel drivers?

“I would like to be offered a choice whether to fully trust a given installer executable (and run it as full administrator) or just allow it to add a folder in C:\Program Files and some keys under HKLM\Software and do nothing more.

“I could do that under Windows XP, but apparently I can’t under Vista, which is a bit disturbing.”

Related websites:
Official Microsoft Vista System Requirements
Microsoft Online Privacy Statement
Windows Vista