Which beggars the question, why not use a secure OS? OpenBSD for example, which has "Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!" (20 years now) "If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.

It's effectively a standard term in their service agreement to protect their ass, and this type of agreement is probably in a lot of products on the web that you use. Could be related to Cortana, it searches in several places for information and even uses your emails in order to provide information such as events, order delivery dates, etc. Agreements such as this, in a sane court of law, won't affect your rights of IP, not sure how crazy the law system is over where ever you are, but over here in the UK MS wouldn't get away with pulling a stunt ripping off IP from its users. ( I would hope, at least, the system is stupid but sane against its own stupidity)

Someone posted the exact same thing 5 posts below. They are implementing a new newsletter thingammyjig, and that feature won't be available for a while. When I was a coder, we worked on algorithms. Today, we memorize APIs for countless libraries — those libraries have the algorithms - Eric Allman

Ok, I understand the logic now. Randor wrote: Anyway... why don't you just open that port so it is not filtered? The application is entered as an exception, but since the application is designed for a LAN the port is not fixed, though I could change this. Thanks.

Yes, call him sir twice. Sir sir. Now, back to Jay Leno.