The evil empire is at it again!

GiMpY-wAnNaBe · 10-21-2003, 10:23 PM

lol, for some reason i have reason to believe that none of that is true, but i will keep my hands off of MO3 just in case

Happydude · 10-22-2003, 12:27 AM

acually, that is quite posibly true...after all, it is MS...

guess i'll be sticking to XP and office XP for a loooong while...

and isn't what they're doing againsst the law, can't everybody sue them for invasion of privacy or somthing like that?

Canyarion · 10-22-2003, 07:30 AM

Now that we're talking about Office XP... I installed a friends version, but as you know it requires me to activate it. Is there some kind of hack out that disables that function so I can keep using it??

PM me!

oh yeah, MS sucks.

Blade Runner · 10-22-2003, 07:56 AM

That sounds like a lot of bullsh*t to me. I've been using office 2003 for a while now and have had no probs whatsoever. Its definately some great software too. But i dunno, maybe the *gasp* virus is lurkin in the background somewhere patiently waitin to attack my pc O_o Evil microsoft, long live linux!

thatmariolover · 10-22-2003, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by happydude666

and isn't what they're doing againsst the law, can't everybody sue them for invasion of privacy or somthing like that?

No. The problem is that whatever software they package this with, you are expected to know what you are getting into when you install it on your box. You willingly installed their software after "reading" the terms of agreement. However, I don't know if there was anything like this in the Xbox terms. If there wasn't, there may be a valid argument.

Jonbo298 · 10-22-2003, 08:59 PM

On the XBox, it automatically updates as needed without needing your consent. Just recently MS released a patch for the XBox that disables it from being used if its found to be running Linux. (But only would happen if connected to the 'net).

But if this does happen, then a bleak bleak future I forsee. Looks like the movies/books about 1 big company controlling the world is coming true........

thatmariolover · 10-22-2003, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Jonbo298

On the XBox, it automatically updates as needed without needing your consent. Just recently MS released a patch for the XBox that disables it from being used if its found to be running Linux. (But only would happen if connected to the 'net).

But if this does happen, then a bleak bleak future I forsee. Looks like the movies/books about 1 big company controlling the world is coming true........

What I'm saying is, in your XBox live terms of agreement, does it mention that they have the right to update stuff. If it doesn't, they could be in some pretty serious crap.

Hero2 · 10-22-2003, 09:25 PM

of course what would lead you to belive that ms wouldent cover there butts

Ace195 · 10-23-2003, 06:32 PM

There has been a couple of times they didn't cover their butts IE. Them not including netscape on the windows softwar hence the big lawsuit about the microsoft monopoly eventually leading to the break of Microsoft into smaller compaines that all have one main HQ