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ciaran:
i think that eventually you'll be able to pick up MS software for "free" in a store and then you'll pay for it during installation/registration/activation via bank a/c details or credit card details... it'd be a great way to collect personal information and people would "purchase" more M$ products if they felt like they were walking out of a store with the product for free...

Calum:

quote:Originally posted by maghor:
So much for the whole idea behind Apple's famous "1984" commercial.  M$ is succeeding at becoming Big Brother anyway.
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that was aimed at IBM, not microsoft. and as such it was a successful campaign. if only apple had realised a few years sooner about microsoft instead of pansying around running after jobs and then sinking itself ever deeper with the string of no hopers that followed him.

Stryker:

quote:Originally posted by ciaran:
i think that eventually you'll be able to pick up MS software for "free" in a store and then you'll pay for it during installation/registration/activation via bank a/c details or credit card details... it'd be a great way to collect personal information and people would "purchase" more M$ products if they felt like they were walking out of a store with the product for free...
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hmm... what gave you that idea?

ciaran:
i just feel that there is a drive from companies, not only Microsoft, to unearth as much personal info about customers as possible... <crossing my fingers i don't get flamed>to me this would be a logical step to follow</crossing my fingers i don't get flamed>... the software would be worthless without activation, documentation could be posted or made available on line... it's a perfect way to get details while appealing to human nature (i.e. "seemingly" free software)...

btw i couldn't care less if Microsoft/bill/george bush/n. e. other want to know what's on my dad's XP box (software/hardware) and i think that the hysteria surrounding ET, sorry i mean XP, phoning home is, has, and will continue to be blown way out of proportion... hmmm maybe i'm in the wrong topic for this subject, sorry...  

Stryker:
i was being sarcastic... i said almost the same thing right before you.

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