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Microsoft To Add A Black Box To Windows
An anonymous reader writes "According to ZDNet, Microsoft plans to add the software equivalent of a 'black box' flight recorder to Windows. According to the article, 'The tool will build on the existing Watson error-reporting tool in Windows but will provide Microsoft with much deeper information, including what programs were running at the time of the error and even the contents of documents that were being created.'" Commentary available via C|Net as well.
...to set up the lab to do debugging by themselves?
Let's see, instead of writing a cleaner, leaner code that can be debugged relatively at ease, they wrote a bloated suite of codes that cannot be audited easily. They don't seem to be able to run regression tests to spot the majority of software triggered failures with some generic hardwares. So MS says, "we are too incompetent to set up our testing beds. So let's have users' computers do it for us!"
I can't believe anyone trust a company with that attitude.
On the PC side of the house the only place this will take hold are those that think Dell's are computers, and personally those people need all the help they can get.
People like you should be quartered and shot, just for being such huge idiots.
Yeah, and I HATE HATE HATE it when everyone knows what kind of car I'm driving. INVASION OF PRIVACY! And God, I want mail delivery, but giving my address to the post office is just going way over the line! People can even drive by my house and determine what kind of car I have! They can even tell what kind of tires I use! God! INVASION INVASION!
that's a bit rough. i think they should merely be insulted.
they really deserve to have every aspect of their lives inspected by microsoft.
"Our stance on this is that the user is in control in the consumer environment; Sullivan [Windows lead product manager] said, you will be presented with a dialog that clearly gives you the choice whether to share the information and then also provides exactly what the detail is so you can parse character by character what's being sent."
...) is a crime for USA citizens ... or will be very soon ... practice up on your "PRAISE THE LORD" and "GOD BLESS AMERICA" patriotic oaths ... y'all will need'em.
... it could save your life (try appearing to be totally illiterate is best) in the beautiful christian totalitarian america.
Microsoft Security by obtuseness is based on a mistaken belief that their software products stability and security is more important than citizens/businesses/... customers' personal/private information.
It continues the Government+Corporate interest for letting citizen-victims "opt-out" of having personal information compromised for corporate gain.
A security violation that provides value to business is protected by the USA constitution, or will be very soon, to help the Christian Fascist Minority find and save all sinners and idolaters in the world.
A security violation by a citizen is a crime. Not providing personal information (unless you're an illegal 37-alien hitchhiking through
Also, learning proper contractions
HAVE FUN - HAVE YOU FILED YOUR CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP PAPERS?
Unaccountable leaders are masters, and unrepresented people are slaves. How do US and EU fare?
Or maybe the default button should be "Don't Bother" and the other "Send". I mean, WTF does "Yes/No" mean?
Yeah, because if Microsoft actually fixed the problems you wouldn't have anything to whinge about on /., would you ?