news.softpedia.com — "in excess of 20 Windows Vista features and services are hard at work collecting and transmitting your personal data to the Redmond company. Microsoft makes no secret about the fact that Windows Vista is gathering information."
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sirhomerApr 21, 2008
@TomK88It's all in that article.
jrbrewinApr 21, 2008
any computer that uses any form of cloud based stuff, e.g. automatic update is just as bad.
jrbrewinApr 21, 2008
i think there's a difference between 'user' data, and 'usability' data, which people aren't seeing here with some of the services.
netantApr 21, 2008
Add to that spoofing your MAC address and hitting up other people's wifi base...Encrypting personal traffic would not affect speed an iota. With a modern CPU and excess RAM, you can encrypt your harddrives in real time.
lamiaconfitorApr 21, 2008
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gn0stikApr 21, 2008
Javaroast. It woud be more accurately classified as QA/Marketing data, as none of it is user centric. The data is weighed against other data to find out which features etc people use most. Also, most of it is opt-in customer experience data. It's used to improve the customer experience. Problem is they should gather this data from the microphone as well, because they can't hear people swearing at their computers about UAC, which they have yet to tweak down to a reasonable level of protection. Also, why did they silently drop ultimate extras? And why is it still in my f**king menu if they are not going to publish any more? Just an initial selling hook eh? Kinda sucks if they can't even stick to a simple commitment like that. I hate the windows group. Dev shouldn't run marketing budgets, they are totally backward at MS. They seriously need to be knocked off their high horses. They've done enough damage to Microsoft in the last few releases. Lesson learned? Entrenched fat stagnant programmers = bad. Hungry Innovative programmers = good.Disclaimer: should this post seem similar real situations or personalities at MS, it is purely by chance(ahem).
gcnaddictApr 21, 2008
The IP addresses are shaved from every online report except activation attempts.
fairdinkummateApr 22, 2008
I notice that the Microsoft fanboys are happy to dig down my comment but rather less forthcoming with the "Good faith" example requested!
darkshroudApr 22, 2008
He's talking about packet sniffing using a reliable program like wireshark.
rasterbatorMay 15, 2008
No, it IS M$. asstard.