* flamestar peremptorily fired off this memo:
> Owning a Vista machine is the same as have Big Brother watch you in
> 1984 except people are paying to be spied on. Vista monitors all
> computer use and is capable of reporting the user to Microsoft for
> anything that the user does be it a political or sexual preference or
> merely sharing files with another person.
Microsoft doesn't care about that stuff. Except insofar as it affects
your spending habits. <grin>
--
Well, it seems to me that he did have an education to get there. It happened to
be mine, not his. -- Gary Kildall on the selection of Gates to give the
keynote at the anniversary of the University of Washington computer science
program. This perceived insult prompted Kildall to write his memoir. "The Man
Who Could Have Been Bill Gates" in Business Week (25 OCTOBER 2004)
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