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In article <40etng$1dc@datamagic.com> kanefsky@datamagic.com (Steve Kanefsky) writes:
>From: kanefsky@datamagic.com (Steve Kanefsky)
>Subject: Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola
>Date: 10 Aug 1995 23:35:28 -0700

>In article <40e8ak$8rb@data.interserv.net>,
>William Rini <billman@centcon.com> wrote:
>>well that's the whole point Steve, nobody is trying to convine you to
>>change.  I have yet to say "Hey let's all get Win95 and join the
>>Microsoft Network"  All I have said is that the story was crap, and
>>that all of this speculation was just that, speculation.  

>Fine, but you haven't given anyone else any reason to feel safe that MS
>is not doing things behind your back.  I think everyone *should* think
>long and hard about what could happen when a single company controls
>everything like that.  The Registration Wizard fiasco is just a good
>time to think about it.

	Does any of this give us reason to think that they may have actually * is * 
soing this behind our backs. I think everyone should think long and hard about 
the reasons that Microsoft wouldn't do that. I think everyone should think 
long and hard about the actual possibility of a single company controlling 
things like that. The Registration Wizard fiasco is just a sorry situation.

	Reasons MS Would Not Use The Registration Wizard to Do This:
1. They can get the marketing analysis from other sources.
2. The need to catch pirate copies of software on the home level is rather 
small.
3. The fact that regardless of the method "someone" could find out what they 
are doing is a strong reason not to do it. MS knows that there are very 
powerful companies that would like to BURY them. IBM with a copy of Win95 
could find anything they needed to in a fairly short time. If I was IBM I 
would search every possible avenue to exploit something like this and then be 
very sorry that there was a "leak" to the media before we could inform MS that 
they had "accidentally" included this in Win95.
4. The information that is on the average computer is not worth crap. So what 
if they know you have a 1.o gig hard drive. How dows that help them.

	In the end however it all comes down to speculation. They could do this type 
of thing is they so desired. What you must ask yourself is what do they seek 
to gain and what do they seek to lose if they are found out. The fact that 
this thread has held out is proof that the consumers would be very pissed if 
this was true.

	Stephen Johnston