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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Jason B on 27 February 2002, 22:29

Title: is it true??
Post by: Jason B on 27 February 2002, 22:29

is it true that XP automatclly registers itself upon regestration and everything that you install afterward? ive heard conflicting reports.  :confused:

Title: is it true??
Post by: voidmain on 27 February 2002, 22:54

You don't know do you?  Unfortunately you can't ever *know* because you can't look at the source code. You can only go with what MS tells you.  You *could* of course never hook your computer up to the internet but that would be a boring eXPerience now wouldn't it?

Title: is it true??
Post by: dbl221 on 28 February 2002, 01:42

I have an idea for an experiment.  install XP on your LAN and capture all the packets from the XP machine, on another machine on your LAN.......analyze all the packets to find out exactly what is being sent to M$.

I don't have the time, but can someone review this methodology and maybee after this semester is over I can work on it.

Title: is it true??
Post by: Jason B on 28 February 2002, 02:03

good idea. but....im not on a LAN.

Title: is it true??
Post by: voidmain on 28 February 2002, 02:39

I have a better idea, don't run XP.  And I block all access to as many M$ sites as I can at my firewall and proxy (msn.com, microsoft.com, etc).

Title: is it true??
Post by: dbl221 on 28 February 2002, 06:00

lol ......  that would work but how would that help us prove how evil M$ is.

Title: is it true??
Post by: Jason B on 28 February 2002, 07:02

im on ME right now ( :rolleyes: ) and i'd like to go to 2000 Pro as soon as i find acopy of it.