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Old 02-27-2014, 04:09 PM   #255
harris
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Yep, it sure is a disturbing trend. Especially for those of us who first stated using Desktops in the mid-eighties when they didn't even have a hard drive, DOS 2.0 was the greatest, and the only communications with the outside world was text-based bulletin boards through a dialup modem.

But it isn't just Microsoft, it seems as though every software program sold today wants to "phone home", excluding of course Jim's MA - I remember when some users wanted auto updates added to MA and Jim said no. I still appreciate that he did that and continues to fight of the "phone home" disease.

What I normally do now is to activate the software and then use my firewall to block all communications from then on. Of course this means you need to go to the makers website and manually download updates, but the less they are in MY computer the better.
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