Microsoft stole my address book! Grrrrr!

[Tripleshot]

I just noticed that every email address in my address book stored in outlook is now showing up in this new IM version for hotmail. That means their software seaeched my hardrive,found files stored on my harddreive and now have them stored on their server. At least that is what it looks like they did.

Any Microsoft wizards out there able to explain to us what is going on with this? I do not care to have my address book so easily manipulated by what was an upgrade I had no control over nor the ability to deny it from altering what I previously was quite pleased with.

Damn it!:|

 

[0ops]

Send an email to hotmail customer service asking
how to turn that feature off.
Don't be surprised by this, microsoft constantly
tries to merge information from all of their
software to make it harder for you to use
other products (hence the lawsuits and
breakup plans) and at the same time allows
viruses to access important info.

 

[Tripleshot]

Thanks. Monday they get an ear full.

 

[HansXP]

Tripleshot, as I understand it, you can tell the Windows Address Book to do this by selecting Synchronize. Did you by chance do that?

 

[Tripleshot]

HansXP
No I did not. This happened to me and to all the computers in my house. This is something the new IM did on it's own.

 

[toant103]

i kinda like this feature

 

[Russ]

Here's an easy fix.

Russ, NCNE

 

[TallBill]

Another fix... even easier

 

[Scouzer]

Another fix...

 

[HansXP]

<< This is something the new IM did on it's own. >>



The new IM? What is that?

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

IM, Instant Messenger I believe.

My firewalls go off all the time while Outlook is open, tries to connect to the MS site!! Fvck those assholes. They'll never get through.

 

[Tripleshot]

I appreciate the fix it posts fellas. I posted this to alert all that something is wrong in mudville,if Microsoft can,without notifying you,alter the software on your computer. I do not know if my address book is now in the domain of microsoft,but if it is,this should be a wake up call. I want some answers about how far microsoft's authority goes in accessing your software and altering it in anyway,without your express permission.
When you go to windows update,there is a field that states to the effect &quot;we are checking your harddrive without sending information to microsoft. OK, Then where are you sending the information? And if it is not microsoft,is it a subsidiary or under control of direct or indirect influence of microsoft?

I generally supprt what microsoft has done for the computing industry and the marketplace,but privacy and your rights to maintaining that privacy should not be abrigated by technology that should be deemed as inocuous at best. I do not think this a malicious envasion,but even if it is not mailicous,Microsoft does not have the best track record of providing security on the web. That is why I maintain two address accounts,those used in hotmail for a reason, and those that are private and protected,(albeit,not as protected as i'ld like). As someone else posted ,they liked that feature. If it was my desire for that,i would have liked some say in it,like mnotification and instruction to install it. Microsoft made an assumption,and the wrong one at that,I think.

 

[0ops]

<< When you go to windows update,there is a field that states to the effect &quot;we are checking your harddrive without sending information to microsoft. OK, Then where are you sending the information? And if it is not microsoft,is it a subsidiary or under control of direct or indirect influence of microsoft? >>



I don't think they are sending it anywhere. The program needs the information to know how to do the update. BTW windows XP will routinely
scan your computer for information (to determine if you put it on
another computer and violated the license).



<< I want some answers about how far microsoft's authority goes in accessing your software and altering it in anyway,without your express permission >>



they have allegedly done it before (bunch of lawsuits), but in theory they
are not allowed.

 

[JellyBaby]

Just trust Microsoft. They'll take care of you, Triple.

Seriously, automatic address book migration like that is very bad form and a breach of privacy, I agree. It's only gonna get more interesting when MS's Dot.Net vision maturates.

 

[hzl eyed grl]

That really sucks. Just let me know if you need my address again.

 

[yata]

I hope you all know that MS explorer send your private information back to where ever it stores over the net. You have to do a procedure to delete some hidden files which is supposed to be your info.

 

[Russ]

yata,

That's paranoid crap. I read the article from which you got that information, and it was pure BS. The files it refers to are the cookies and history that IE stores, and they aren't even hidden in the way the author claimed.

Russ, NCNE

 

[DROORS]

blahahah

 

[AdamDuritz99]

here is another easy fix



oh wait.....


:frown:


peace
sean