Posted on 02/12/2010 7:25:28 AM PST by hripka
hmm, or you could have a legal version of windows
What else is it sending?
You can stop that from happening by putting their web/IP address in your “Hosts” file and block it... :-)
I like windows7 generally, but don’t care much for some of these types of features. I am pretty happy with ubuntu, but M$ indirectly pays the bills...hehe
Yup, if you’re not pirating someone else’s property, what’s the problem?
If there is any place where property rights should be understood it’s this forum.
Yeah. That's just like having the computer do some checking when one of those (usually useful) automatic updates runs when you have decided to shutdown your computer.
ML/NJ
The US Constitution needs to have a personal privacy amendment.
How is that done?
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I don't like running useless processes on my PC that have the ability to falsely invalidate my PC. The validation process in not 100% and false positives are possible. The solution would be a trip to tech support limbo which may or may not clear up the issue. So wasted cycles on my PC with the potential of wasted time dealing with tech support. Not to mention the question of what information is being sent to MS. That's the problem.
I have a legal version of Win 7, and I still don't want them poking around.
Oops, we're sorry we crapped up your PC, it "looked" like it was suspect.
I paid for it, but I didn't pay them to snoop.
How about when you buy some DVD movies? Does Disney have the right to come into your living room every 90 days and check your DVD collection?
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I have a legal copy of Windows XP (several, in fact): 2 months ago, after upgrading the video drivers on one of my machines, it suddenly failed to authenticate, and it took me two weeks to straighten it out with Microsoft, including forwarding copies of my CD key to them.
And finally got a “oops, our mistake”, and it got fixed.
The point is, you ALREADY authenticate the box and license when you activate the OS at install. . . .
Another variation of the “what’s the problem with us snooping? do you have something to hide?” argument. I have quite a few PCs and only one left running Windows. This just might push me over the edge to go 100% Linux.
Well, I can tell you exactly where the problem is.
I run Parallels an a Mac, using Windows 7 as a guest OS, for the increasingly rare times I want to use a Windows program. I bought a legal copy of Windows 7 for this use and installed it a few months ago.
Everything ran fine for a while and then I suddenly got a message that my Windows 7 installation "could not be authenticated". Now, remember, I had authenticated it when I installed it, and I had made no hardware changes at all.
In this instance, the fix was both easy and not so easy. All I had to do was re-enter the activation number from the Windows 7 packaging, but I was traveling when this happened, and didn't have that stupid number with me.
Bottom line is that I couldn't use the program that I had bought and legitimately paid for for a period of two plus weeks, and in order to use it after that, I had to go through a lengthy and error-prone process of re-registration.
I feel that retroactively adding this requirement to the Windows 7 program is violating the terms of the EULA I purchased it under, and depriving me of its use for any period of time is an actionable illegal act. The only problem is that the amount of damages I could collect would be too small to make it worth the effort.
OTOH, I can easily foresee a class action lawsuit arising over this practice in the not too distant future.
How would that help ? The Constitution controls the actions of the Federal Government. Your relation with Microsoft is based on accepting their End-User License Agreement (EULA), a totally private transaction, unaffected by the Constitution....
I agree, after all, it’s a conservative, mostly Christian forum. No one here would condone anything illegal.
“Another variation of the “what’s the problem with us snooping? do you have something to hide?” argument.”
Its a variation but since its not the govt it is different.
I’d like to know the reason it goes out every 90 days. Seems like once you registered your OS there wouldnt be a need for it to phone home.
The 13th amendment put an end to a private transaction, and I agree!
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