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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: Lanya on January 19, 2008, 06:28:20 PM

Title: Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software
Post by: Lanya on January 19, 2008, 06:28:20 PM
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3193480.ece
Title: Re: Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software
Post by: BT on January 19, 2008, 07:52:17 PM
Methinks the author i confusing technology with how that technology is used.

Monitoring like this, remote diagnostics is nothing new and it saves lives.

Title: Re: Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software
Post by: Amianthus on January 20, 2008, 02:04:12 AM
I remember one time we got a new IBM 3090 mainframe, back in the 80s. About three weeks after it was installed, one evening the night shift operators were surprised by a knock at the door of the ops center; it was an IBM technician who had been tasked with replacing some defective parts. When the operators looked at each other, and asked the technician who had called him, because they had no reports of anything being bad, he said that our computer had let the computer in the local IBM repair center know that some boards were not responding properly, and had been shut down pending a replacement order filed by our computer automatically.
Title: Re: Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software
Post by: The_Professor on January 20, 2008, 10:44:50 AM
Ami, thi is reasonable technology and is employed all the time. Pretty efficient too, huh? How long ago was that?

Anyway, you can download and execute alot of cool "spy" software from www.majorgeeeks.com.

Bon appetit!
Title: Re: Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software
Post by: Amianthus on January 20, 2008, 10:48:35 AM
Quote from: The_Professor on January 20, 2008, 10:44:50 AM
Ami, thi is reasonable technology and is employed all the time. Pretty efficient too, huh? How long ago was that?

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I remember one time we got a new IBM 3090 mainframe, back in the 80s. About three weeks after it was installed
Title: Re: Microsoft seeks patent for office 'spy' software
Post by: The_Professor on January 20, 2008, 11:00:37 AM
Oops. my bad, as they say.