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Subject: Re: Windows XP - a privacy issue?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 11:59:48 10/24/01

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On October 24, 2001 at 13:31:20, Torstein Hall wrote:

>On October 24, 2001 at 00:23:56, William Penn wrote:
>
>>I wonder if you considered the privacy issue with Windows XP? You must "phone
>>home" to activate it, and you cannot reinstall it without doing the same.
>>Microsoft accesses and stores in their archives certain private information
>>about you and your computer system, then has the ability to grant or deny you
>>access to Windows XP and your own computer! At least that is what I hear, so I
>>am leary of it.
>>WP
>
>
>I have planned to let XP rest for a while and let others buy a MS xx.00 product.
>Then perhaps I can see where this privacy issue is going and get some
>"experience reports".

XP is a refresh of Win2k, which has been lauded as an incredibly stable,
full-featured OS. It is hardly a xx.00 product.

-Tom



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