On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:34:11 -0600, Bruce Chambers
wrote:

Adam Albright wrote:
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:05:43 -0600, Bruce Chambers
wrote:

Silicon neuron wrote:

Microsoft has begun patching files on Windows XP and Vista without users'
knowledge, even when the users have turned off auto-updates.

Actually, this is *not* being done _without_ user consent. Just the
opposite. Every user of each operating systems has been given advance
notice that such things could happen, and has consented to it.

Read the Vista EULA. Section 7 makes it clear that this could happen:

Yea sure, and I bet most people aren't aware that buried deep in the
EULA Microsoft claims the right to your first born and anybody in
Redmond above a certain rank can have sex with your wife or girl
friend if a there's a fifth Saturday in any month. Better check your
calendar. ;-)



Sarcasm aside, I'm glad to see that for once you agree that the EULA
does so stipulate and that all users have given their consent. It's not
often you let facts get in the way of your rabid anti-Microsoft stance.

Me anti Microsoft? Hardly as I've said many times I wouldn't be a
stockholder in a company I don't like. I simply wish they would clean
up their act. What I find fascinating is how fanboys automatically
stick their heads in the sand and just ignore all the failings in
Vista and the anti-customer stance Microsoft has had since say one.

As far as any EULA, they are like the fine print on insurance polices.
NOBODY reads them or for that matter could understand half the double
talk contained there in.