The first patent (the one filed in 1997) describes a PIM a la microsoft exchange. The second patent (the one filed in 1999) distinctly mentions relationships and granting permission to view personal information. The 2008 patent just seems to adjust the claims to fit a current social network.
Twitter doesn't store personal details. Even putting a name in your profile name is optional. How can they provide information they don't even collect?
Tasks that will trigger a UAC prompt, if UAC is enabled, include:[3].
* Changes to files in %SystemRoot% or %ProgramFiles%
* Installing and uninstalling applications
* Installing device drivers
* Installing ActiveX controls
* Installing Windows Updates
* Changing settings for Windows Firewall
* Changing UAC settings
* Configuring Windows Update
* Adding or removing user accounts
* Changing a user's account type
* Configuring Parental Controls
* Running Task Scheduler
* Restoring backed-up system files
* Viewing or changing another user's folders and files
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Installing applications?
I don't need a warning when I'm installing an application. I know that I'm installing an application.
However, I may need a warning that the file that I am opening has a script in in that could be a virus.
Oh, and by the way, have you ever heard of a malicious device driver?
Indeed.
I still play TA, as there is some brilliant user created content for it, mods, maps, units, everything.
Its still a brilliant game to play, even though it is 6 or 7 years old.
I was in china last week. Every fake DVD and games shop had a couple of copies of cracked windows vista. They also had copies of every other big commercial software package - Office, Macromedia, the lot.
Microsoft's big mistake was releasing a public beta of vista. This meant that crackers could get their hands on the software and crack it and sell it for 35p in a country where it is easy to sell fake stuff such as china.
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The first patent (the one filed in 1997) describes a PIM a la microsoft exchange. The second patent (the one filed in 1999) distinctly mentions relationships and granting permission to view personal information. The 2008 patent just seems to adjust the claims to fit a current social network.
Twitter doesn't store personal details. Even putting a name in your profile name is optional. How can they provide information they don't even collect?
Dropbox's beta builds have LAN sync.
Installing applications? I don't need a warning when I'm installing an application. I know that I'm installing an application.
However, I may need a warning that the file that I am opening has a script in in that could be a virus.
Oh, and by the way, have you ever heard of a malicious device driver?
Indeed. I still play TA, as there is some brilliant user created content for it, mods, maps, units, everything. Its still a brilliant game to play, even though it is 6 or 7 years old.
I was in china last week. Every fake DVD and games shop had a couple of copies of cracked windows vista. They also had copies of every other big commercial software package - Office, Macromedia, the lot. Microsoft's big mistake was releasing a public beta of vista. This meant that crackers could get their hands on the software and crack it and sell it for 35p in a country where it is easy to sell fake stuff such as china.
I, for one, welcome our new spandex wearing, energy producing overlords.