No - as a matter of fact I'm talking about Windows Media Center - not Media Player. On WMP you are correct. Media Center is a variation of XP that's sold on some home-oriented packaged systems. And, btw, I'm a 31-year software engineer who has been around Microsoft and their products since they were a small start-up in California with 22 people. They were a great and innovative group at one time. My comments are about Media Center, the failing concept of DRM and Microsoft's growing arrogance.
Objectively the reality is Microsoft has not disclosed what they're sending themselves, who receives it, and what they do with it. When you have products such as Microsoft Media Center it's very scary. A roommate bought a new latop with Media Center on it... the first time he connected it to the LAN in our house it went through every other computer's shared drives and DELETED movies and music without saying a word. The only fingerprints were the Media Center thumbnail databases dribbled all over the place. Several gigabytes of other people's data was deleted with no warning, and we suspect transmitted to Microsoft, and likely The Office of Fatherland Security. It's completely over the top - and Vista has that kind of spyware BUILT-IN. It is utterly naive to think Microsoft is sending themselves data for the good of the customer.
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No - as a matter of fact I'm talking about Windows Media Center - not Media Player. On WMP you are correct. Media Center is a variation of XP that's sold on some home-oriented packaged systems. And, btw, I'm a 31-year software engineer who has been around Microsoft and their products since they were a small start-up in California with 22 people. They were a great and innovative group at one time. My comments are about Media Center, the failing concept of DRM and Microsoft's growing arrogance.
Objectively the reality is Microsoft has not disclosed what they're sending themselves, who receives it, and what they do with it. When you have products such as Microsoft Media Center it's very scary. A roommate bought a new latop with Media Center on it ... the first time he connected it to the LAN in our house it went through every other computer's shared drives and DELETED movies and music without saying a word. The only fingerprints were the Media Center thumbnail databases dribbled all over the place. Several gigabytes of other people's data was deleted with no warning, and we suspect transmitted to Microsoft, and likely The Office of Fatherland Security. It's completely over the top - and Vista has that kind of spyware BUILT-IN. It is utterly naive to think Microsoft is sending themselves data for the good of the customer.