OMG!! the winxp EULA has a weird message!!!

[ATI4EVER!]

I was just reading the windows xp home edition end user licsence agreement when suddenly I come across a paragraph that is highly interesting...I begin to wonder weather my xp is authentic, it might be pirated...but i bought it at comp usa. anyways...here it is.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES. You may link
to third party sites through the use of the Product. The
third party sites are under the control of Microsoft,
and Microsoft is not responsible for the contents of any
third party sites, any links contained in third party
sites, or any changes or updates to third party sites.
Microsoft is not responsible for webcasting or any other
form of transmission received from any third party sites.
Microsoft is providing these links to third party sites to
you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link
implies an endorsement by Microsoft of the third
party site.

umm....comments anyone? I swear i didn't make this up, I know that the EULA is not read only, but i did not change it and no one else could have.

 

[gh0st]

... whats wrong with that? just saying that anything you see on the internet isnt their fault.

 

[Ames]

You read the EULA?

What can I say but.....LOSER!!!

I can't decipher its meaning. ;(

 

[ATI4EVER!]

... whats wrong with that? just saying that anything you see on the internet isnt their fault.

let me draw ur attention to this:
The third party sites are under the control of Microsoft...

and the inclusion of any link implies an endorsement by Microsoft of the third party site.

erm.....

 

[Triggerhappy41]

i think what hes pointing out is:

The third party sites are under the control of Microsoft,

 

[gh0st]

let me draw ur attention to this:
The third party sites are under the control of Microsoft...

and the inclusion of any link implies an endorsement by Microsoft of the third party site.

erm.....

i doubt they are implying they own the intarweb, they probably defined third party as something else earlier in the eula. wait for icarus he should know.

 

[h00dlum]

What the hell!? Im lost! I just woke up

 

[Revisedsoul]

they are talking about that links that come with microsoft when you first install. like the free internet trials and such

 

[moppe]

Well, if you read it again it basicly says "All your data is belong to us".

Use Linux or Mac.

 

[Phisionary]

...it basicly says "All your data is belong to us".

AHAAHAHAH!!!





well, excuse me. I may be pathetic, but I would only have understood that as of the past month...

 

[Icarus]

ATI4EVER! sorry, but you are mistaken.

14. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES. You may link

to third party sites through the use of the Product. The

third party sites are not under the control of Microsoft,

and Microsoft is not responsible for the contents of any

third party sites, any links contained in third party

sites, or any changes or updates to third party sites.

Microsoft is not responsible for webcasting or any other

form of transmission received from any third party sites.

Microsoft is providing these links to third party sites to

you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link

does not imply an endorsement by Microsoft of the third

party site.

That is from the real EULA

 

[Phisionary]

maybe yours was warezed?

nm, I see yours was a compusa comp.
I know some whitebox builders that installed unliscenced win (back in the pre-xp days when it was easier), but it seems unlikely a major comapany would try it (good way to get a$$rapored by MS, I'd think)

 

[Ghost Freeman]

Microsoft owns your soul

 

[ATI4EVER!]

I bought an upgrade winxp home edition, i b uilt my own comp.