[Nottingham] Microsoft EULA simplified?

Dylan Swift dylan.swift at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 08:30:44 UTC 2009


as of 09:00 on the 10th the page is fixed

2009/7/9 Jim Moore <jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com>:
> ...as of now, 2300, the page throws a 404
>
> On 7/9/09, Peter Taylor <nickstone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Through the wonders of Twitter I thought I'd try to get a response out of
>> Microsoft about the dead link, more than half expecting to be ignored,
>> apparently not.
>>
>> http://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/2554222376
>>
>> 2009/7/9 Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk>
>>
>>> 19:01 and not fixed.
>>>
>>> > and still, as at 1700, not fixed!
>>>
>>> >> Still not fixed! (2009/07/09 13:37 -- LEET!)
>>>
>>> >>> On these terms, it could almost be usable.... :-)
>>> >>>
>>> >>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/eula/pro.mspx
>>> >>>
>>> >>> (Assuming they haven't fixed it by the time you see this).
>>>
>>> Wow! Now that must rate as the shortest EULA ever.
>>>
>>> Very amateurish.
>>>
>>> Regardless, I'm sure their Legal Department will argue E&OE or some such
>>> arcanery for their profit.
>>>
>>>
>>> (You don't think that Douglas Adams has arisen from the dead to pull one
>>> last joke?...)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Martin
>>>
>>> --
>>> ----------------
>>> Martin Lomas
>>> martin at ml1.co.uk
>>> ----------------
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> MTFBWY
>>
>> ~Peter Taylor
>>    nickstone at gmail.com
>>       nickstone.wordpress.com
>>
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