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  Microsoft’s Longhorn has spyware plan
Time: 08:31 EST/13:31 GMT | News Source: the inquirer | Posted By: Chris Hedlund

PERVASIVE SOFTWARE giant Microsoft says that it is planning to install spyware into the next version of Windows to help it work out why its operating system crashes. According to Cnet, Chief Volester, Sir Bill Gates announced a plan to install a 'black box’ recorder into Longhorn. Then when the operating system crashes it will send details to Redmond as to what you were doing when the crash happened.

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#1 By 8556 (12.217.161.186) at Wednesday, April 27, 2005 09:34:55 AM
The first paragraph's language is a pathetic ripoff from a Fark.com link posted yesterday: "Windows, now with built-in spyware". As most know this is the "black box" extension of Watson and not spyware at all.



 

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