Stop the Windows Vista Features and Services Harvesting User Data for Microsoft
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| The Device Manager and the hardware wizards in Windows Vista communicate to
| Microsoft...
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| [...]
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| The File Association Web Service in Windows Vista also whispers in
| Microsoft's ear.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Stop-the-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvesting-User-Data-for-Microsoft-63115.shtml
Vista -- it's /watching/ you.
Why Internet Explorer is blocked
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| According to Uncyclopedia:
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| Internet Explorer is a spyware and adware deployment tool developed by
| Microsoft...
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http://www.mindvomit.com/2007/08/18/why-internet-explorer-is-blocked.html
Related:
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files,
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status
| messages?
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml
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| Vista—Microsoft’s latest operating system—may prove to be most
| appropriately named, especially for those seeking evidence of how a
| computer was used.
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http://www.abanet.org/journal/ereport/jy13tkjasn.html
Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel?
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| "The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent
| application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted
| advertising as 'part of the OS.'
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/043200
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