Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola

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From: Wayne Farmer
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1995 02:27

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In article <400kfm$5qj@sundog.tiac.net> Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> writes:

>Can Microsoft prove that it is not possible, using Win95 and the Microsoft
>Network for Microsoft to upload whatever they want from your machine to 
Microsoft?  I also am beginning to wonder if it might be possible for 
Microsoft to download whatever they want from Microsoft into your machine 
without your knowledge...

Scary thought.  There's a precedent: AOL's Windows access software frequently 
pauses to download graphics and icons that "go along with" the various 
places an AOL user visits.  Over time, these accumulated icons grow to be 
quite a large file.  Also, Prodigy checks what version of software you're 
running when you connect, and downloads revised software into your machine 
without asking if it finds you need an update.  Now these are both 
well-behaved programs, and neither one is apparently interested in modifying 
your system in any way not connected with AOL or Prodigy.   Let's hope 
Microsoft is as benign.

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Subject: Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 02:27:20 GMT
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