From: letoured_at_together.net
Date: Sat Oct 19 2002 - 06:52:54 EDT
In <014f01c276ee$76dbb740$0200000a_at_f5yxd>, on 10/18/02
at 03:36 PM, "Deanna Berman" <dberman_at_dimensional.com> said:
>Did I miss something in these articles? The only reference to tracking down
>an author that I remember was about the reporter's figuring out (with the
>help of a few others) who created the advertisement. I imagine it took
>nothing more than doing a few "view source", "view links", and "view images"
>to make the connections to her company's own website.
I think the point was M$ lying again, and not how they got caught --
although its a good example of basic stupidity, that also is built into their
products.
>Deanna
>dberman_at_dimensional.com
>>
>http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=528&ncid=528&e=15&u=/ap/200
>21014/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_ad
>> The story and true identity of the the M$ PR person is
>> here:
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/27595.html
>>
>> Note this, as admitted by Microsoft: Microsoft is
>> able to track every single document or excel sheet
>> back to its original creator computer.
>>
>> =====
>> Mike
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