Why is it that every time I read an article about Microsoft it has something to do with DRM. Seriosuly now... when they aren't down on their knees for the movie or record industry then they are trying to restict the heck out of their operating system. I just saw this article about MS trying to add DRM to kernel modules... freaking kernel modules. They may not see it now being so blinded by the Digital Restrictions Managment propaganda but this is a really bad move that is likely to piss off consumers very quickly. Windows hardware support is bad enough as it stands, when you plug in something as simple as a thumbdrive it has to go find and install a driver for it. Imagine if you will that the next time you plugged in that just-released thumbdrive that Windows can't find a driver, you search the internet and find one that somebody wrote and try to tell Windows to load it only to be rejected because it doesn't contain the right DRM. You would be out buying a Mac or installing Linux pretty quickly.

The big question is does all of this DRM acutally help anything. Judging from how quickly new DRM schemes are being broken (see HD-DVD and Blu-Ray) and how many holes windows still has I would say that it does not help at all. In a prefectly Microsoft controlled DRM world you wouldn't need to release a service pack before the operating system because all that DRM would be protecting us, right? Heh...

Well at least they pattented the concept to prevent other clueless idiots from implementing such a dumb idea.