Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 14:21:16 10/26/01
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On October 26, 2001 at 02:10:40, Christophe Theron wrote: >On October 24, 2001 at 14:59:48, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>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 > > > >Are you working at or for Microsoft, Tom? Yes. :) >Are you willing to take responsability for whatever problem people will have >using the new RAM-eater from the "micro" soft (sic) company? Funny you should mention that, WinXP uses less memory than Win2k. (Although more than Win9x.) Runs fine with 64MB. Doing a darn sight better than, say, Apple's OS X. :) >I think that the wait-and-see attitude is the wisest thing to do in this case. >The concerns expressed by William and Torstein sound extremely justified to >me. Concerns don't bother me. Concerns based on bad information bother me. Like the idea that XP is a x.0 product, that Microsoft keeps a database of personal information about you, that you have to call up MS every time you want to reinstall the product or change your hardware. Concerns about all of this are invalid. I'm the last person to tell somebody to use Windows, but if you don't use it, I'd prefer that your reasons be based on accurate information. :) -Tom
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