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Submission + - Stopping WGA Installation sends data to Microsoft

Submitted by

rev

on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @01:37PM

rev writes: "The new WGA Notification installation that can be installed using Windows Update sends data to Microsoft if the user decides to cancel the installation. A cookie is set that could be used to identify the host and information such as version of Windows and WGA as well as language of the operating system are transmitted. Part of the data is encrypted. (read more)"

Submission + - Windows 2.0 era talk by Bill Gates with 640k

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06, 2007 @01:21PM

An anonymous reader writes: Back in 1989, Bill Gates came to talk to the students of the University of Waterloo on the early days of Microsoft, and the future of computing. It's an interesting blast to the past, as he touches on topics such as the VGA graphics, OS/2 and software piracy, as well as the now infamous 640K of memory. Lost for nearly two decades, the tape of the talk recently surfaced and is now available in a number of audio formats from the University of Waterloo Computer Science Club.

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