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Microsoft To Add A Black Box To Windows

Posted by Zonk on from the we're-going-down dept.

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.

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  1. Do you want to send this information to Microsoft? by tquinlan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Too bad! This time you have no choice. ;)

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  2. What's next by drgonzo59 · · Score: 0, Troll

    "MS is installing key and web loggers to help improve customers' experience"

    Me: "I cannot log into my yahoo email account anymore"
    MS Overlords: "We changed the password for you to improve the security of your email and to provide a better customer experience. Send us a payment of $100 and we'll deliver your new password"

    Well, I, for one, welcome our new MS data logging overlords.

  3. Re:Hmmmm... the full quote... by JoeBar · · Score: 0, Troll

    But my cousin Walter jerked off in public once. True story. He was on a plane to New Mexico when all of the sudden the hydraulics went. The plane started spinning around, going out of control, so he decides it's all over and whips it out and starts beating it right there. So all the other passengers take a cue from him and they start whipping it out and beating like mad. So all the passengers are beating off, plummeting to their certain doom, when all of the sudden, *Snap* the hydraulics kick back in. The plane rights itself and it land safely and everyone puts their pieces or, whatever, you know, away and deboard. No one mentions the phenomenon to anyone else.

    Well, did he cum, or what?

    Jesus Christ, man. There's just some things you don't talk about in public.

  4. Re:Windows already logs/sends all your surfing dat by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Troll
    Yes, but does it run on Linux?

    I want one, or at least an emulator, so that I can have a script pretend that I was typing "Bill Gates eats Monkey Cheese" when it crashed.

    Will people put up with that shit? Time will tell, but my bet is many Windows users would take an alien anal probe if Microsoft told them it was a new "feature".