Windows Vista: The most disappointing product of 2007

Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?

It's not that Vista is awful. The integrated security and parental controls are nice, and the Aero interface is as whizzy as it gets. Searching and wireless networking are much faster and easier than under XP.

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Windows Vista OR Your Privacy

Did you know that there are over 20 Windows Vista features and services secretly collecting your personal information and transmitting to Microsoft? Well it's true. Microsoft is not denying it and the users have no choice.

If you read between the EULA lines, you will find that Windows Vista provides Internet based services where Microsoft reserves full control to alter or cancel at any given time. These services can share and transmit the users' information without any notification. In fact the EULA has the following quote:

"By using these features, you consent to the transmission of this information. Microsoft does not use the information to identify or contact you."

Using information harvested such as simply the IP address, they could locate and contact you.

I can go on and on about many things like this written in the original article. It is worth having a look especially if you are using Windows Vista.

Please don't get me wrong, my intention here is not to put down Microsoft, but I feel that people should know about these things especially when it comes to your personal information and privacy. Without knowing, there is no way that we can equip ourselves to safeguard such information. So have a look at the article on softpedia.

The Windows Vista image on the top of the article was taken from Windows Vista website.

Oh Microsoft, you did it again :-)

Check this out... this is hilarious. Some guy was able to validate Ubuntu as a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows. Makes one wonder of the greater things to come from this software giant in the future.

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