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| Over 20 Vista Features And Services Xmit Personal Data To Microsoft |
| 2007-07-02 |
| Are you using Windows Vista? Then you might as well know that the licensed operating system installed on your machine is harvesting a healthy volume of information for Microsoft. In this context, a program such as the Windows Genuine Advantage is the last of your concerns. In fact, in excess of 20 Windows Vista features and services are hard at work collecting and transmitting your personal data to the Redmond company. Microsoft makes no secret about the fact that Windows Vista is gathering information. End users have little to say, and no real choice in the matter. The company does provide both a Windows Vista Privacy Statement and references within the End User License Agreement for the operating system. Combined, the resources paint the big picture over the extent of Microsoft's end user data harvest via Vista. Together with Windows Vista, Microsoft also provides a set of Internet-based services, for which it has reserved full control, including alteration and cancellation at any given time. The Internet-based services in Vista "coincidentally" connect to Microsoft and to "service provider computer systems." |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #1 Lots of hyperbole and hand-wringing in this article, but there's plenty of reason to be concerned. That's one reason I bought a Mac a couple of weeks ago. The other reason is, as I investigated, I realized Macs are more serious machines for software development. I mean, a free profiler that works with Java, when the equivalent would set me back $500 for Windows?! Not to mention the underlying BSD... |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2007-07-02 12:00 |