Microsoft announced that the poor sequel to Halo (the console video game shooter) will appear on the PC platform. But this is going to bring a new marketing twist: It will only run on Vista, the upcoming Operating System of Microsoft.
It is not known if the reason is to use an environment where copying a HD-DVD media will certainly be more difficult than on any other platform (software copy protection), or if the reason is just to try and find a way to promote Vista (surprisingly, Vista is not considered by the consumer as the next great thing).
Maybe both. On Vista, plenty of things will not be possible if you do not have the adequate rights (Microsoft is willingly helping big media companies). Because of that some people start to worry about the compatibility with older application and - more importantly - with any hardware not built after the arrival of Vista.
Potentially, Microsoft could well be forcing customers who want to play Halo 2, to use only a mother board for Vista, a graphic card for Vista and a screen for Vista. Unfortunately, these are to be HDCP-compatible and none is available on the market today. Be prepared to buy a completely new PC just to have the non-pleasure of playing with the crap sequel of a console game.
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