RC: RE: copyrights and email

[Keeyun@aol.com]

Excuse me, but I work at Microsoft and I know for a fact that they do not,
under any circumstance have Office software "send a GUID back to a database
at Microsoft".

ALL websites use some mechanism to uniquely identify all of their users, the
GUID being the most common.  But Office isn't a website.  It has no direct
connection to the internet.  And frankly, Microsoft could care less about
what I have on my hard drive, as long as I have Windows and Office on it.
Do you really think they have a staff of 10,000 analysts poring over the
documents on Joe Long's hard drive?  We barely have enough bodies to get the
REAL work done.

Mike Sofen   Professional Propeller Head  :-)
Redmond, WA
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Salim Nice [mailto:snice@premhealth.com]
    Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 12:25 PM
    To: ridecamp@endurance.net
    Cc: lbm@ici.net; Tivers@aol.com
    Subject: RC: copyrights and email



    The point you make in your opening sentence of  argument 5 is incorrect.
The person responsible for creating the Melissa virus was TRACED by
Microsoft.  Microsoft was recently discovered to have inserted programming
code into the Microsoft Office suite of programs that sends a "globally
unique identifier" directly to a database at Microsoft.  Every time an
Office document was created information about the action and user was
transmitted unknowingly.  This is more an issue for users with constant
Internet connections as opposed to dial-up users.  The Melissa virus only
affected Microsoft Exchange users who also ran Microsoft Word.  Apparently,
it is quite possible to trace the exact sources of an -mail, spreadsheet,
Word document, virus...


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Excuse
me, but I work at Microsoft and I know for a fact that they do not, under any
circumstance have Office software "send a GUID back to a database at
Microsoft". 

 

ALL
websites use some mechanism to uniquely identify all of their users, the GUID
being the most common.  But Office isn't a website.  It has no direct
connection to the internet.  And frankly, Microsoft could care less about
what I have on my hard drive, as long as I have Windows and Office on it. 
Do you really think they have a staff of 10,000 analysts poring over the
documents on Joe Long's hard drive?  We barely have enough bodies to get
the REAL work done.

 

Mike
Sofen   Professional Propeller Head  :-)

Redmond, WA

   

-----Original Message-----
From: Salim Nice    [mailto:snice@premhealth.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 12:25    PM
To: ridecamp@endurance.net
Cc: lbm@ici.net;    Tivers@aol.com
Subject: RC: copyrights and    email

The point you make in your opening sentence    of  argument 5 is incorrect.  The person responsible for creating    the Melissa virus was TRACED by Microsoft.  Microsoft was recently    discovered to have inserted programming code into the Microsoft Office suite    of programs that sends a "globally unique identifier" directly to    a database at Microsoft.  Every time an Office document was created    information about the action and user was transmitted unknowingly.     This is more an issue for users with constant Internet connections as    opposed to dial-up users.  The Melissa virus only affected Microsoft    Exchange users who also ran Microsoft Word.  Apparently, it is quite    possible to trace the exact sources of an -mail, spreadsheet, Word document,    virus...

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