Tuesday, September 3, 2002, 7:28:48 AM, you wrote:
JA>> I don't think I can find any information in the MS help files about it
JA>> storing information about your user details in their documents either,
JA>> and I'm not just talking about the stuff you can change. Each
JA>> document you create gets tagged with a unique identifier made up
JA>> partially from the MAC address of a network card if you have one. ;)
G> It is even worse then that. At the end of most MS Word and Excel files
G> you will find a piece of your Harddisk attached. Use a file viewer to
G> look through the end of some files and you will never again want to use
G> MS.
G> I have deactivated the UI code.
I thought they were supposed to have dropped this .. but I guess I'm
not surprised they didn't.
I don't use the thing, and that's one of the reasons why, though my
husband is forced to use it at work. He has a license for it at home;
how about instructions to deactivate the code? Private mail is fine.
I was all excited about SP 3 for W2kPro, until I discovered the
sniffing component of the thing ... what happens, I wonder, if you try
to load that up on a standalone system with no modem ..?
Well, I'm way OT, but why would any corporation consider this
acceptable? If I'm not leaping to conclusions, a corporation loading
SP3 to a w2k system running Office is agreeing to give MS access to
all its Office documents .. whether MS invokes the option or not. And
if it were my corporation (or my personal data, for that matter), I
wouldn't make a distinction between the record of the document or the
document content .. it's none of their business either way.
I mention the corporate aspect of the thing because no individual is
going to prevail in a quarrel with MS; only a major corporationo has
the resources to fight something like this.
What boggles my mind is that it's still happening ... amazing!
OK, rant over ... back to my corner to do penance Marck, I promise :-)
Lynn
1.60m on Win2kPro SP2
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