Windows Update keeps tabs on all system software

Windows Update keeps tabs on all system software
John Leyden, The Register 2003-02-28

Evidence obtained by German hardware site tecChannel suggests a list of software installed on an XP machine is sent to Microsoft when users run Windows Update.

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Along these same lines, the default configuration of IE will redirect your failed DNS lookups to a msn site to make the 404 look "pretty." When really, there's nothing preventing them from recording and selling this information to companies.

They just feel like because they can, they should. I don't know how their software engineers sleep at night.

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