Visual Basic - m$'s Foibles Come Home To Roost

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m$'s Foibles Come Home To Roost

Stefan Berglund

2006-06-30, 9:55 pm

Just as I've predicted, m$'s foibles are just starting to come home to
roost. Looks like they got caught with their hand in the proverbial
cookie jar:

http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/2775

This will prove to be great entertainment as it begins to unfold. Didn't
anyone get the memo on installing BETA software on people's computers
without their permission?

And the lawsuits are just starting to hit the fan. This one will be
expensive even for the TEFLON corporation who takes no responsibility
for their software. (HEY - read the EULA - it's your fault not theirs)

he he he
---
Stefan Berglund

mayayana

2006-07-01, 6:55 pm

Please don't hold your breath waiting for doom to
descend on MS, Stefan, or you might turn very purple. :)

Microsoft have been very careful and patient
in training their customers to accept these abuses.

In 1999 there was outrage when MS was found to
be reading registration info. from Win98 at the Windows
Update site. They promised to stop.

In 2001 they released XP, which has been spyware
from the start. And the auto-update function, to a great
extent, redefines XP as a beta service rather than
finished software. (In '99 such an auto-update
"feature" would have been regarded as unprofessional,
intrusive and destabilizing, at best.)

When you think about it, there can only be two
groups of people who have WGA installed in the first
place:

1) People who are not paying attention to any of this
stuff in the first place.

2) People who don't mind XP's spyware; who trust
Microsoft to snoop on their PC. These are mostly people
who leave auto-update enabled, trusting MS not to break
their system with a bad patch. They also use the Windows
firewall (at best), trusting MS to come and go with data on
their system. And they trust MS so much that they agreed
to an unexpected EULA without question. Admittedly, the
people at Microsoft lied flagrantly in calling it a critical
update, but still... the customers who agreed to the EULA
either think that the Microsoft people are honest or at least
are not concerned about it.

So any people who complain about WGA now are likely to
be doing so only for face-saving purposes, like a man who
proclaims he'll punish any man he catches in bed with
his wife. Then when he does catch such a man he changes
his proclamation to say, "I'll punish any man I catch in bed
with my wife...while I'm in the bed...if they wake me up..."

> Just as I've predicted, m$'s foibles are just starting to come home to
> roost. Looks like they got caught with their hand in the proverbial
> cookie jar:
>
> http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/2775
>
> This will prove to be great entertainment as it begins to unfold. Didn't
> anyone get the memo on installing BETA software on people's computers
> without their permission?
>
> And the lawsuits are just starting to hit the fan. This one will be
> expensive even for the TEFLON corporation who takes no responsibility
> for their software. (HEY - read the EULA - it's your fault not theirs)
>
> he he he
> ---
> Stefan Berglund

Michael C

2006-07-02, 3:55 am

"Stefan Berglund" <sorry.no.koolaid@for.me> wrote in message
news:88mba29ad5ahp3mder5u96tcmqrij6db4c@
4ax.com...
> Just as I've predicted, m$'s foibles are just starting to come home to
> roost. Looks like they got caught with their hand in the proverbial
> cookie jar:
>
> http://www.newswireless.net/index.cfm/article/2775

This said it all: :-)

"Really? Well, at the moment, it remains rumour. But if this turns out to be
true, Microsoft could well face a horrid lawsuit,"

Michael

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