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Joel Kolstad Joel Kolstad is offline
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Default That nice MS corp - so caring about your data

"PeteS" wrote in message
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Amusing, and yet another reason to avoid Vista like the plague
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forge...ft-58752.shtml



The author is clearly not very technically savvy. He says:

"Microsoft will get your "Internet protocol address, the type of operating
system, browser and name and version of the software you are using, and the
language code of the device where you installed the software."

Wow! If only he realized every single web site he's ever visited gets that
same information, I bet he'd *really* be up in arms!