What does sony have to do with it?
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Is MIcrosoft gathering personal information about us?
"Xinhua report that a Beijing University student has sued Microsoft for allegedly gathering personal information via Windows Genuine Advantage. He has demanded a compensation of 1,350 RMB (around US$ 180) and an open apology printed in a national newspaper. The student has accused Microsoft of using WGA to gather information about his computer and himself, rather than solely checking whether or not the installed Windows XP system was genuine. A Microsoft spokesman has declined to speak on this issue and said that the matter is under investigation."
What does sony have to do with it?
Sorry my bad I was thinking of what homebrew to put on my PSP whilst posting this.
maibe there aliens that are trying to help our civilization advance alittle at a time and are also keeping track of all of us
hey you never know
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/faq.aspx
very near the bottom one of the questions is "what information is collected" it gives most of the items. Wikipedia has a full list that has been augmented via other sources (as well as a wealth of other info on it).
The genuine validation process will collect information about your system to determine if your Microsoft software is genuine. The validation tools do not collect your name, address, e-mail address, or any other information that Microsoft will use to identify you or contact you. The tools collect such information as:It would make sense to store that information temporarily so that the computer can configure the drivers necessary, but why store that information on ms servers?* Computer make and model
Perhaps to determine how well ms products are selling in specific regions or countries. Makes some sense.* Region and language setting
To used with your Serial Key to determine how many times you've installed windows? to be $#@!s? both?* A unique number assigned to your computer by the tools (Globally Unique Identifier or GUID)
No idea why the hell they would need this information.* BIOS name, revision number, and revision date
* Volume serial number
Basically they record all of that to be able to have a full profile of each individual machine a person is using with windows. But basically they end up knowing the make and model of most all components in your machine, where you are, who you bought your machine from, and have a method for tracking you online as well (MAC).
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