On 2006-06-13, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> posted something concerning:
> Microsoft eyes data-gathering services
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>| Muglia said Microsoft plans to share with partners and corporate
>| customers the mountains of data coming into the company. Applications,
>| such as Office and Windows, use an automated system called Watson to
>| "phone home" and send bug information to Microsoft.
Not to mention the other things that phone home which don't even
pretend to give a choice about the contact being made.
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>| "We can get a real understanding of how our customers use our products,
>| and by getting that understanding we can really improve what we're doing
>| in really substantial ways," said Muglia.
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TRANSLATION: We're trying to buy support from spammers in our quest to
not go under before bilking a few more billion from our loyal and
beloved customers (aka 'marks').
> http://news.com.com/2100-1011_3-6082893.html?part=rss&tag=6082893&subj=news
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