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MicroSoft Talks Daily With Your Computer imhotep 06-07-2006
Posted by imhotep on June 7, 2006, 10:33 pm
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Funny how the infamous EULA does not specify this? Isn't it?

"Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Wednesday that it needs to better inform users
that its tool for determining whether a computer is running a pirated copy
of Windows also quietly checks in daily with the software maker. The
company said the undisclosed daily check is a safety measure designed to
allow the tool, called Windows Genuine Advantage, to quickly shut down in
case of a malfunction." The EULA is suppose to disclosed this daily call in
feature. Lauren Weinstein, who is co-founder of People for Internet
Responsibility, was one of the first people to notice the daily
communications to Microsoft. Report from Yahoo.com"

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/08/0119253&from=rss
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060607/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_monitoring_piracy;_ylt=AujEpciXDaznfIp7roidcYMjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-

-- Imhotep


Posted by Roger Abell [MVP] on June 8, 2006, 4:44 am
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> Funny how the infamous EULA does not specify this? Isn't it?
>
> "Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Wednesday that it needs to better inform
> users
. . .

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/08/0119253&from=rss
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060607/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_monitoring_piracy;_ylt=AujEpciXDaznfIp7roidcYMjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM>
-- Imhotep>All the same, more people should read their EULA.txt agreement.I
recall some universities that deeply deliberated over the internetservicing
related clauses when they first appeared with XP . . .--ra


Posted by imhotep on June 8, 2006, 6:46 pm
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Roger Abell [MVP] wrote:

>
>> Funny how the infamous EULA does not specify this? Isn't it?
>>
>> "Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Wednesday that it needs to better inform
>> users
> . . .
>
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/08/0119253&from=rss
>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060607/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_monitoring_piracy;_ylt=AujEpciXDaznfIp7roidcYMjtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM>
> -- Imhotep>All the same, more people should read their EULA.txt
> agreement.I recall some universities that deeply deliberated over the
> internetservicing related clauses when they first appeared with XP . .
> .--ra

True. Microsoft get's away with alot of stuff be cause most people do not
read that stupid thing....

anyway...

Imhotep


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