Subject: Re: Microsoft, wizard and piracy: A calm analysis From: reeltime@omni.voicenet.com (Dave & Jacqui Kramer) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 1995 18:04:06 -0400

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At 4:28 PM 6/10/95, Nitin Borwankar - MetaNews wrote:
>For the record, what is now being called the Registration Wizard first
>incarnated on a "free" disk called the "Upgrade Advisor" over a year and
>a half ago.
>The "Upgrade Advisor" took an inventory of all apps on your hard drive and
>then recommended that non-Microsoft apps like Wordperfect, dBase etc
>be upgraded to Microsoft apps !! In some of those cases the use of the
>word *upgrade* in that context would be offensive to some.
>Now the same code, no doubt, appears to have surfaced in an online form.

When I registered my Mac fax software a year or so ago (it came bundled
with my Supra 14.4 modem), it had an option to fax your system contents as
well. It was a checkbox that was otherwise unexplained. If you didn't do a
page preview, you wouldn't know that it was sending a listing of the entire
contents of your system folder to the folks who wrote FaxSTF.

This isn't new. But it is becoming an issue since the company doing is
Microsoft.

-D


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