Microsoft Opts-In Hotmail Users

medeii writes "East Side Journal reports that without telling anyone, Microsoft has suddenly changed the privacy preferences for all Hotmail users. They're now sharing your name and other personal information with third parties, even if you said you didn't want that when you signed up. (If you're a user, login, go to Options > Personal Profile, and un-check the boxes at the bottom of that page.)" The same reporter has written a follow-up article today.

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Re:Come on now...

[os2fan]

This may appear off topic: it's answering questions raised in the parent.

If their product were so good, then why do they need to prevent others comming to market. Were windows so wonderful, they should have no problem with dual boot. Windows 2000 will not dual boot with a Non-Microsoft operating system, unless you download the 100+ MB download SP2.(which downloads a new round of breaks.)

So it's not "dual booting" that upsets Win2k, but the presence of a non-microsoft operating system. It's not that dual boot is unknown: OS/2 and Linux already ship with boot managers, and there are third party ones.

As far as "help" goes, were the products "so user friendly", then why is there a fairly solid aftermarket in books on how to use Office or Windows Word for xyz.

I used to like MS stuff. Some of the stuff is neat. But on the main, it unnecessarily upsets my system, and I can best do without it because of that.

And that they sould send out fake errors to selected non-MS browsers, and disallow POP3 to non-microsoft mail clients, only shows the contempt that people have for them is well founded.