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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Windows Update keeps tabs on all system software 2003-03-01
hellz
"So why is Microsoft collecting this data?"

Simple, because as always, Micro$oft feel they're exempt from all the rules that companies are *supposed* to follow. I can't think of one "privacy policy" that I would ever believe, because most companies snoop on everything we do.

It's like a while...

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