'Microsoft Services Agreement'

[boatbuilder]

If you use Microsoft Windows, and probably other Microsoft products you will have probably received, or will receive in due course, an email advising of, and including a link to their updated 'Services Agreement' which becomes effective on May 1st 2018.

I decided to follow the link and have a look and this turned out to be a somewhat lengthy webpage. Out of curiosity (please don't mention anything about cats ) I decided to create a Word Document of the page and then remove all the unnecessary padding which left me with a document 18 A4 pages long and in a small 7.5 pt typeface (about 1/10th of an inch in height)

I just wonder how many users (no doubt a very small percentage somewhere under 'one') ever bother to read such documents, and if they did would they be able to understand all the jargon it contains.

If you think about it, with all the other software we use on our computers from other sources, and the T's & C's they all come with that we have to tick the box to accept before we are allowed to install them were to be read, then we would probably never have the time to use our computers for anything else other than to do that.

If you are interested then here they are, below, which I saved as a PDF document.

Microsoft Services Agreement - May 1st 2018.pdf

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Please let us know if you manage to wade through it.

[nikkai]

I got bored by the 3rd or 4th item so went and just accepted the T&C so I could continue with the product..

[boatbuilder]

According to the email that the link was in, you accept the agreement by continuing to use whatever you use from May 1st.

You can read the entire Microsoft Services Agreement here. You can also learn more about these updates on our FAQ page here, including a summary of the most notable changes. The updates to the Microsoft Services Agreement will take effect on Ma‍y 1, 20‍18. If you continue to use our products and services on or after Ma‍y 1, 20‍18, you are agreeing to the updated Microsoft Services Agreement.

[nikkai]

Yes I just want an easy life so ticked the box ready for the change and I can just continue with whatever MS products I have, the only thing is there are 5 different systems using the same or similar MS programs etc
On 3 of those I await the email?

[boatbuilder]

I haven't seen anything to 'tick', at least as far as I can see, nikkai.

[nikkai]

When I say tick i mean to agree to their jargon (which I haven't waded through)