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    Jay T. Blocksom Guest

    Re: new laptop with XP Pro / how to protect?

    On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 05:46:50 +0200, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, karin
    <fritz@rodent.frell.eu.org> wrote:
    >
    > I've just purchased a Tosh 6100 with XP Pro on it and am wondering if I
    > need to install Win2k

    [snip]

    Well, there are better choices; but tWin2L would still be a huge
    improvement.

    > I don't want M$ accessing my machine and doing things I cannot control.
    >

    [snip]

    Then you don't want to go anywhere near WinXP.

    <http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm>
    <http://www.futurepower.net/microsoft.htm>)


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    Lance Delacroix Guest

    Re: new laptop with XP Pro / how to protect?

    Jay T. Blocksom wrote:
    > On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 05:46:50 +0200, in <alt.privacy.spyware>, karin
    > <fritz@rodent.frell.eu.org> wrote:
    > >
    > > I've just purchased a Tosh 6100 with XP Pro on it and am wondering if I
    > > need to install Win2k

    > [snip]
    >
    > Well, there are better choices; but tWin2L would still be a huge
    > improvement.
    >
    > > I don't want M$ accessing my machine and doing things I cannot control.
    > >

    > [snip]
    >
    > Then you don't want to go anywhere near WinXP.
    >
    > <http://www.hevanet.com/peace/microsoft.htm>
    > <http://www.futurepower.net/microsoft.htm>)


    Nice article. Great argument for moving to Linux, which I am en proceso
    of doing.


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