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[Nvyseal]

images/news/vista.jpgAre you using Windows Vista? Then you might as well know that the licensed operating system installed on your machine is harvesting a healthy volume of information for Microsoft. In this context, a program such as the Windows Genuine Advantage is the last of your concerns. In fact, in excess of 20 Windows Vista features and services are hard at work collecting and transmitting your personal data to the Redmond company.

Windows Update, Web Content, Digital Certificates, Auto Root Update, Windows Media Digital Rights Management, Windows Media Player, Malicious Software Removal/Clean On Upgrade, Network Connectivity Status Icon, Windows Time Service, and the IPv6 Network Address Translation (NAT) Traversal service (Teredo) are the features and services that collect and deliver data to Microsoft from Windows Vista. By using any of these items, you agree to share your information with the Redmond Company. Microsoft says that users have the possibility to disable or not use the features and services altogether. But at the same time Windows update is crucial to the security of Windows Vista, so turning it off is not really an option, is it?

But there's more...

[Camaro]

hmmm this isnt something we have seen coming now is it. lol

[m.oreilly]

i wonder if apple does this also...?

[stormrosson]

geez MO do u really have to ask that question?

[m.oreilly]

stormrosson, on Apr 21 2008, 09:18 AM, said:

geez MO do u really have to ask that question?

well, scara has been getting more fruit oriented lately, and i just wanted to have something to shoot back as a wakeup call...

[talker]

Even though I use Vista and am writing this on a lappy with Home Premium and have a 64 bit version of Ultimate, I have, since the beginning, stated that I thought there was something hidden in Vista. I could not identify it or even guess at it but, none the less, I believed it was there. Perhaps this is a hint of what I been feeling since the early Betas. Perhaps it is still only paranoia on my part but seldom has my internal feeling for something been this strong and not been corrrect. Will I continue to use Vista, yes, but not as a production system with anything relevant on the HDD.

[m.oreilly]

i wonder if the server OSes are the last vestage of a non drm/tin hat MS system...

[Nvyseal]

m.oreilly, on Apr 21 2008, 08:20 PM, said:

i wonder if the server OSes are the last vestage of a non drm/tin hat MS system...

@ 4000.00 US per seat, I would think you mean strictly business. Thus your 20% increase in speed not having to check DRM. I dont think the services have much to do with speed, but more with resources. Services take up cycles only when called upon.

I've always thought MS had services that a user could turn on and off, but also hidden services that only they could modify, in any MS OS.

I would also look closely at future Feature Packs you install on your server OS

[m.oreilly]

i really doubt they would do a 1984 on their server stuff. lots of bright peeps out there to spot it. yep, all us be using ubuntu...scara thinks it's the shizz...