[Am-info] Microsoft Admits XP Media Player Spies on Users

[Paul Rickard]

========== On 2002.02.23 12:22 PM, Mitch Stone typed: ============

>Hence the quotation marks around "free." The basic rule of economics: 
>everything comes at a price, even when it's not in cash. Now we know the 
>price of WMP. Incidentally, one of the common criticisms of the Mac is 
>that WMP for the Mac isn't kept up-to-date with the Windows version. Yup, 
>I'm really weeping in my beer over that one.

    I don't see any way Microsoft could use WMP Mac to spy on customers 
the same way it does with the Windows version. Especially when Macs won't 
use it to play CDs or DVD.



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