Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ [H]omer ] on Friday 14 July 2006 15:18 \__
>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>> http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=5398
>>>
>>> Quite funny. Dance, monkey, dance.
>> That has got to be the saddest thing I've ever seen.
>>
>> Would you buy Vista (or anything) from a company run by a man like
>> that?
> I wouldn't even but it from a bootlegger on the street. Not even if
> it came with a free GPU and 2 GB of RAM. The implication of using
> that O/S becomes an obligation -- that of maintenance and being
> subjected to spying (earlier today I learned that IE7 sends data to
> Microsoft, probably for their search engine results refinement)...
The IE7 Spyware component (under the premise of anti-phishing) has
been known since early beta. Apparently it can be disabled, but then
that's what they said about the ActiveX component of WGA,
(legitcheckcontrol.dll) ... initially.
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K.
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