Not only will ms control your computer usage remotely, it is getting you
ready for a new way to buy software.  In some countries their scheme to
"activate" software from them is used to apply a yearly subscription fee.
That's right, you will soon never own a copy of their products, you will
only be allowed to rent it.  MS wants to become your software utility
company.  Increasingly they are moving their internet products to a
subscription scheme already.  Now are you happy ms might win the current
lawsuit for monopoly practices?  If you think ms doesn't want to get
private information about you, see this page:

http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/

the windows system creates hidden folders and stores copies of all your
cookies, web pages you have visited, and all the email you have
recieved.  E    ven when you delete these kind of files and empty the trash
can, the contents of these hidden folders remain.  Why did ms want to keep
this private information?  Until people complained some years ago, ms had a
system to scan the contents of your harddrive looking for their products
and those of their competiers; when you connected with them by
modem.  resistence is futile, ms knows what is best for you, you will be
absorbed and be happy about it.

"Nothing needs so reforming as other people's habits." -- Mark Twain


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