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Surprises in Microsoft Vista's EULA

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oh-look-a-sheep dept.

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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  1. Must be a slow news day by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...as this topic seems to come up whenever there's nothing else to bash on Microsoft over. Nice to see /.'s favorite dead horse to be dragged out again.

  2. Farist stop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    about a project [tux3do.org],