Surprises in Microsoft Vista's EULA

androthi writes "Scott Granneman takes a look at some surprises in Microsoft Vista's EULA that limit what security professionals and others can do with the new operating system. You want to post benchmarking results? Well, Microsoft may now have a say in it. Vista's EULA no longer shows up on Microsoft's software licensing page, but does still exist — also take note of Windows DRM deciding what you can and can not listen to, and Defender deciding and removing what it considers spyware automatically (by default)."

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The only winning strategy

[j00r0m4nc3r]

Is not to play

Moo

[Chacham]

I have the best comment *ever* about this story.

I'll post it as soon as Microsoft oks it.

What an Awesome Idea!

[Mateo_LeFou]

If we keep brainstorming great stuff like that, we will be able to do all kinds of awesome stuff, like:

study our own computers' performance.
tell people what we find
share ideas on how to improve them

Before you know it, we'l have "free speech" as I like to call it.

Re:sined, sealed and delivered

[ClamIAm]

Yeah, tell me about it. Soon, MS's EULAs will require a paper contract, with a notary cosine. And with every little thing they get away with, they'll get more obtuse. Of course, I feel like I'm going off on a tangent, here...