From: Mike N. 

On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 12:02:39 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>>   ... And yes, Microsoft needs to know your username and DNS name for
>their
>> statistics.
>
>You mean for profiling.

   They want items of higher impact to turn over to the BSA for an audit.
It sounds more impressive in court  "Usernames JOEW, EUNICEF, JANED
are running unlicensed windows on workstations
purchasing47.yourcompany.com, engineering02.yourcompany.com and
accounting12.yourcompany.com."

   On setups without active directory, all my systems return 'intranet' for
the DNS name!

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