Microsoft Updates the Default Spy Tool in Vista SP1
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 13.6.2008
In order to improve the quality of the software information collected from the users' operating systems and sent to Microsoft, the Redmond company introduced an update to the spy tool included by default into every copy of Windows Vista, following the release of Service Pack 1.
The June 2008 update for the Windows Vista Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP) is now available for both Vista RTM and Vista SP1. Windows Vista copies are constantly communicating with Microsoft, and CEIP is an integral part of the infrastructure used to gather data from users' computers and send it to the Redmond company's servers. Of course, this can only happen with the explicit permission of end users.
"The Windows Vista Customer Experience Improvement Program collects information about how you use Windows Vista. The Windows Vista CEIP also collects information about any problems that you experience when you use Windows Vista. Microsoft uses this information to improve the features that you use most frequently. If you join the Windows Vista CEIP, Microsoft will use the information that is collected only to improve the software. Microsoft will not use this information to identify you or to contact you," Microsoft explained.
Designed for the 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows Vista (with or without Service Pack 1), the update will tweak the CEIP settings on the machines that are alread part of the experience improvement program. Users that have not joined CEIP will not receive the update. The new CEIP configuration will increase the quality of the data collected about the software solutions running on Vista which is subsequently sent to Microsoft. In order to access CEIP to either switch it on or off, you will have to navigate to Control Panel, System and Maintenance, Problem Reports and Solutions and in the left hand side corner, at the bottom select the Customer Experience Improvement Settings option.
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Comments(5)
is it just me or is this genuine windows spyware?
does anyone wonder what dif
it makes switching off the ceip?
just like the update can only happen if you ask them to. other than that one time, uh,
two times. they never share the data, other than that 3 times. and on and on... no thanks,
xp rules! then, my next os will be linux
"if you join the windows vista ceip, microsoft will use the information that is
collected only to improve the software. microsoft will not use this information to
identify you or to contact you,"
so what is the spyware here? is firefox's
talkback also a spyware too?
this marius oiaga is an idoit.
samin has a point about talkback, but since you can un-install it at any time, i don't
think it's the same thing...
( if you don't like it, use another browser)
besides, i trust firefox/mozilla. not sure if i could say the same about ms.
but the same thing goes to ceip as well... basically, ceip service never run or install
without your consent.
remember ceip wasn't in the vista rtm. if you never
install sp1 or office 2007, this ceip update will ask you to join the program. if you
installed sp1 or office 2007 before and you have said "no", this update doesn't both to
ask again.
see this line in the article?
"users that have not
joined ceip will not receive the update."
it basically void the whole argument
of ceip being "spytool". i serious doubt this marius oiaga guy even read the whole dang
thing before he copy-and-pasting.
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Hmmmm...
By SxC on 14.06.2008 - 02:06