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Sites about alleged unethical or illegal conduct by software company Microsoft Corporation.

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• Appraising Microsoft

  http://www.appraising-microsoft.org/
  Official site of the Appraising Microsoft conferences headed by Ralph Nader and James Love.

• Does Issuing Passports Make Microsoft a Country?

  http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000047.html
  Am I the only one who is terrified about Microsoft Passport? It seems to me like a fairly blatant attempt to build the world's largest, richest consumer database, and then make fabulous profits mining it.

• Microsoft quietly shadows Web surfers across MSN sites

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-245680.html
  Days after acknowledging a privacy problem with its browser, Microsoft says its privacy policy does not say how it identifies people who travel across its network of Web sites. [CNet]

• Microsoft's Stock Options As Tax Loopholes

  http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rulemaker000217.htm
  Rob Landley of Motley Fool argues that Microsoft's size and methods allow it tactics to make money without even selling software.

• MSBC Superlist of Anti-Microsoft Web Sites

  http://www.msboycott.com/super/
  Indexes more than 250 anti-Ms links and forums: a comprehensive directory of anti-Microsoft activity around the Internet and around the world.

• MSN Cookie Data Crosses Domains

  http://www.pc-help.org/privacy/ms_guid.htm
  How Microsoft web sites like HotMail and MSNBC assign unique ID numbers in cookies, and shares that ID with other web tracking sites.

• SecurityFocus: Microsoft Cookies jump Domains

  http://www.securityfocus.com/news/83
  Privacy advocates laud Microsoft for Internet Explorer's new cookie-controls, while the company tries out a new scheme for tracking web surfers across domains.

• The Register: OS Expiration

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/10/02/expiring_oses_check_the_windows/
  Expiring OSes? Check the Windows 'best before' dates.

• WebRing: Anti-Microsoft

  http://www.webring.org/hub/antims
  Sites and resources that want or list alternatives to Microsoft Windows.

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