Microsoft to Spy on Employees

4T writes "Forget about monitoring your computers with spyware, now they're going to monitor the users as well! 'Microsoft is developing Big Brother-style software capable of remotely monitoring a worker's productivity, physical wellbeing and competence. The Times has seen a patent application filed by the company for a computer system that links workers to their computers via wireless sensors that measure their metabolism. The system would allow managers to monitor employees' performance by measuring their heart rate, body temperature, movement, facial expression and blood pressure. Unions said they fear that employees could be dismissed on the basis of a computer's assessment of their physiological state.'"

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given the POS that is VISTA

[Ralph Spoilsport]

I am not surprised they want to bitch slap their employees. God ferbid they employ the same tactics on the bosses who tell them to build steaming heaps like VISTA.

So, first you put the squeeze on the little guy or gal, and then when the system still fails, you engage in a round of finger pointing, and then the one with the most clout says "ROLL OVER" and they all roll over and one falls out, and then there's a lot of back slapping and yes, now everything will be better, and of course it's NOT, because the rot starts at the head.

This is all so pathetic and predictable. The sooner M$ disappears ,the happier I will be.

RS