With Windows Vista’s imminent arrival tomorrow, the Toronto Star has an article discussing all the legal fine print in the Vista Service Agreement’s terms and conditions. If half of what the author states is true, we’ll all have traveled 23 years back in time, all the way back to 1984. I wish I were making these up, but here are some of the lowlights of what the terms and conditions give Microsoft:
- “… granting Microsoft the right to regularly check the legitimacy of the software and holds the prospect of deleting certain programs without the user’s knowledge”
- “ … (granting) Microsoft the right to revalidate the software or to require users to reactivate it should they make changes to their computer components.” Like when you install that DirectX 10 video card that they want you to own.
- “Windows Defender (Microsoft’s own anti-virus/adware software) will, by default, automatically remove software rated ‘high’ or ’severe,’ even though that may result in other software ceasing to work or mistakenly result in the removal of software that is not unwanted.”
The article tells of other insidious details. The devil truly is in there. If what John Carmack says is true about DX10, count me out of Vista for a long time.
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February 4th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
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