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Read the Fine Print

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the show-this-to-your-boss dept.

nihilist_1137 writes: "This story is about how MS changed its EULA and you just gave them control of your computer. In the section on Windows XP Professional, 'Internet-Based Services Components' paragraph says in part, 'You acknowledge and agree that Microsoft may automatically check the version of the Product and/or its components that you are utilizing and may provide upgrades or fixes to the Product that will be automatically downloaded to your Workstation Computer.'"

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  1. beyond the pale... by jpellino · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    What happened to "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose".

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    "Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
  2. This is in the PRO version... by jpellino · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    They're aiming for PROs, eh? Should be a lttile more enlightended than your base XP user, right? Unless of course "Pro" doesn't refer to IT or TECH pro features - but instead is a label designed to entice users to spend extra bucks for the "Pro" version...

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    "Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
  3. Correction by Knunov · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Actually, the quote is, "The right to swing your arms freely stops at the end of my nose."

    It is a teaching from Hindu philosophy.

    Knunov

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    Why do users with IDs under 100,000 or over 700,000 usually have the most worthwhile comments?
  4. Re:MY EULA to MS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    WTF? You guys are retards. So what if Windows can check if running the latest version of the software? Windows Update has been doing this too. Oh no, what's Microsoft going to do? Put a virus into your computer? Get a life.

  5. Re:Your Sig, totally offtopic by Sarcazmo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Your sig is actually the chant that Alcoholics Anonymous uses, in condensed form.

    I don't know if you want to be associated with a brainwashing religious cult organization that courts order people into.

  6. FBI Magic Lantern by wiliano · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the FBI's Magic Lantern. Not that MS couldn't sneak it past you before, but now it seems that it would be legal.

    -Willy

  7. Re:Funny thing is... by Ziviyr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Win2k is the best OS MS ever did, and it's the first time I am not missing my old amiga's OS.

    Well, I guess since I bypassed all of MS earlier attempts at an operating system when I moved from Amiga (and still emulate one). I still know what features to miss, and I miss them still (especially every time I have to rebuild my Windows system, there doesn't seem to be a "set echo on" for windows install "scripts").

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    Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!