Yet another reason to seek alternatives to these masters of greed...
The company will scan machines for a variety of information, including product
keys or software authorization codes, operating-system version and details on
the flow of data between the operating system and other hardware, such as
printers. It is access to this information that particularly upsets the privacy
advocates. Ms. Dixon says the only information Microsoft needs to fight piracy
is the product key and the operating-system version, and she says that Microsoft
will be able to identify users uniquely based on some of the information the
company collects.
"They are grabbing more information than they need to deter piracy," she said.
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