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Microsoft Installs New Software Without Permission
Futurepower(R) writes "Even though I have Automatic Updates turned off, on August 28, 2007, between 3:49 and 3:51 AM PDT, Microsoft installed new files on my Windows XP computer." Nine files are updated on Vista and on XP SP1, a different set of on each, relating to Windows Update itself. Microsoft-watch.com's Joe Wilcox and ZDnet's Adrian Kingsley-Hughes confirm the stealth update.
Then stop using windows and use an alternative. You can't have it both ways. What do you want? Does your desire to control the machine outweigh your love of windows? Probably not.
But to install the software located on the CD, you've gotta accept the EULA - End User License Agreement.
No, you don't. Where did you get that idiotic idea? Oh, right you read it when MS wrote it down.
Hot tip sparky, just because somebody says something does not in any way make it true.
You own the physical medium, but you do not own the software it contains.
In fact you do own *that copy* of the software. You can't make additional copies and sell them, due to copyright law, but other than that, yes you do own it and can do more or less whatever the hell you want to with it.
Well, I can anyhow. You've apparently bought into the entirely retarded idea that criminal organizations are free to impose any sort of demands on you at a whim and you're somehow magically bound by them.
The fact is that nobody is bound by the deluded crap MS puts in their EULAs unless they choose to bind themselves.
Why would you make such a stupid decision?