MS to Rid Windows of Tracking Numbers

Mon Mar 8 12:34:41 EST 1999

FYI ....

"Microsoft Corp., which sells the software runs most of the world's personal computers, said yesterday that its latest version of Windows [Windows 98] generates a unique serial number that partly is planted within electronic documents and could be used to trace the identity of authors."

The full story is available from The Washington Post at:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/feed/biztop920897272397.htm

Jim Harold
USAID/DEC