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Anthony D. Tribelli (adt@netcom.com) wrote:
: I used the wizard once. It asked for permission and lets the user bail-out
: and register nothing. It is optional. It is not required, there is a
: postcard for conventional reqistration also. 
: I'll attempt to preempt a long and useless thread:

:     MS haters will say this is further evidence of the Great MS World
:     Domination Campaign.
:     Some who have not used the wizard will ask what corrective action
:     they should perform to ensure their security.
:     Other who have used the wizard will say it is not required, do not
:     use it if you are concerned.
	
	And others just aren't sure what to think.  :(

	Acctuly, this has already been an issue on CNN...  Many many 
people are concerned that many users will not realize that there is a 
conventional method (post card) and reluctantly go ahead with the 
procceedure the registration wizard requires.  In the CNN article, it was 
analogized as a sort of corporate fine print.. or words to that effect.  
	The CNN article also showed clipped interviews from Microsoft's 
marketing manager.  He sternly said that Microsoft will not use this 
information to help them target markets in anyway.  They will also never 
sell this information to comapnies who may wish to learn all they can 
about thier status through the MSN users, thus no profit will be 
accumulated through the existance of the wizard.  
	However, there are those who beleive that Microsoft won't be able 
to contain a vault of 24k gold and not sneek a peek every once in a 
while.  I tend to agree.  But then again, Microsoft is such a large 
company, that it might be successful in policing it's self.  But, the 
inforamtion gathered is so valuable to so many people, I see coruption 
as being inevitable.  But, who knows?  :\  

	-Kevin Stone
	   kbs3387@silver.sdsmt.edu