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Story: Planning the future of privacy at Microsoft
Posted by: Arthur B. (Tuesday 11 July 2006, 11:18 PM)
Microsoft spend a lot of PR money to get people to turn on Automatic Updates which automaticly installs everything labeled as high priority updates because 'people can't be trusted with installing needed security updates themselves in time'. Not that much later the WGA thing shows up which is anything but a needed security update. Just shows that when dealing with commercial companies like Microsoft there's no such thing as a free ride. One might wonder what surprises are in store for 'free' services like Live Messenger. Guess the only real free nowedays is the Open Source version of free.
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