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Great quote: "Brandon pointed out that the real issue here was that the parts of the software that allow sending of logs to Microsoft are removed from retail bu

Great quote: "Brandon pointed out that the real issue here was that the parts of the software that allow sending of logs to Microsoft are removed from retail builds of the OS - only developer builds are able to do this." Everything else (Android, Windows 7, Firefox, iOS, etc) ships with this functionality, so I was trying to figure out what would cause Microsoft to strip it out. Seems like an interesting Rorschach-esque blot of their culture/thinking. Under-confidence because of all of the lawsuits from the past? Hubris because Windows will dominate? Poor product management? Fear of the reactions from the corporations they'd try to sell this phone into?

recoiledsnake 16y ago
My best guess is that they simply didn't have enough time(after all it's almost all pretty new code and building OSes is very hard) to strip out the user info. They didn't want to end up potentially violating privacy. Hell, even their sending logs feature on Windows results in accusations. For example of a brouhaha, see this http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windo... Read some of the comments on here: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/07/07/02/139251/Vista-is-Watching-You http://yro.slashdot.org/story/07/07/02/139251/Vista-is-Watch...