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Chester Karma (fts@cris.com) wrote:
: In article <3vqpif$6nt@mo6.rc.tudelft.nl> bonse@dutw215.wbmt.tudelft.nl (Marcus Bonse) writes:

: >If I want somebody to know what I'm using I'll tell them myself. It's no 
: business>of theirs. I don't want anyone snooping around on my computer, period.

: Nobody WANTS people snooping around, and I seriously doubt claims that 
: Microsoft was planning on doing that were simple Microsoft-bashing at it's 
: best. If Microsoft were to give a report on the contents of your hard drive, 
: it would have to A) be only of Microsoft applications and the serial numbers, 
: or B) someone would have to actually sit over on the other end of the 
: connection and snoop in realtime. In the latter, you'd notice that the 
: registration process is taking WAAAY too long (and your hard drive is 
: accessing too!), in the former, you shouldn't be running pirated Microsoft 
: apps anyway.

Today Micro$oft accumulates just the apps, you are using! Tomorrow,
they add somewhere a dialog that tells you ``Yes I'd like Micro$oft
to connect to my computer, to detect hardware-problems with existing
software on my computer'' or anything of that kind, and then your
computer is an open book to them :(.

Thomas

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