From: mike 


So Microsoft can inform your employer that you are not working hard enough.

Microsoft has exhausted all the other ways to claim that Windows has
improved worker productivity, not it is trying the baby-sitter approach.
There will be a new website www.MicrosoftIsWatchingYou.com so that your
managers can get real time data on who is playing solitaire within an
organization.

 /m


On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:45:36 -0500, Gary Britt
 wrote:

>Why does it need to phone home to play solitaire?
>
>Gary
>
>Geo. wrote:
>> "Mike N."  wrote in message
>> news:6s5ep2dbupaq1op5jda98dnnjl05eis5op{at}4ax.com...
>>
>>>  Hee Hee, you want to actually USE your network?  Sorry, you have to be
>>> running Server for that.  Limiting to 10 incoming connections wasn't
>>> enough, now they have to limit to 10? outgoing connections as well....
>>
>> I promised myself I would run vista for a month before deciding if we
>> will ever move anything to it. I gotta say, at this point I wouldn't
>> even let my dog run this shit. I can't believe what they have done to my
>> favorite OS. It's like they took a baby grand piano and turned it into
>> one of those kids mini piano things like Linus from Charlie Brown plays.
>>
>> It's not even good as a toy OS. It phones home, it blocks my videos, it
>> limits my networking, it stops me from playing solitaire unless I let it
>> phone home. It's fucking useless.
>>
>> Geo.

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