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Elbonia | reply to Zyniker
Re: WinXP SP3, Maybe Next March 2009 said by Jack2131 :
If I were Microsoft, I'd add a lot of "hidden" features in SP3 to make it slow down, open to virus attack. said by Zyniker:And that would be illegal and you'd be making yourself a giant target for lawsuits...
What law would it violate? If the EULA is enforceable, Microsoft has exempted itself from liability for anything they may feel like doing with the OS. The antitrust rulings were diluted in the first place, are about to expire and are not seriously enforced anyway.
More important, Microsoft always has a semi-plausible, innocent-sounding explanation for each of its anti-user tricks. The logging of user activity, "phone home" features, DRM, and various inconveniences are always explained away as somehow well-intentioned or accidental.
Changes that make XP less desirable so that it will compare less favorably with Vista are well within Microsoft's bag of tricks, and they would easily get away with it. |
