Will this be the Windows killer? (adware from Microsoft)

[Simon]

I wonder if this will finally be a good enough reason for people to abandon the Windows platform, or will the sheep just bleet and suffer on? This sounds like it could be Zango on steroids to me.

REDMOND, Wash. — In a recently filed patent application, Microsoft Corp. seeks a patent for what appears to be a far more extensive adware application than anything currently on the market.

The application, first uncovered by InformationWeek, describes a contextual advertising framework that is not dependent upon end-user interaction with a web page or search interface, instead displaying ads based on “a variety of resources on a local computer.”

Web marketing and advertising analyst Scott Rabinowitz told XBIZ that the system described in the Microsoft patent application represents the “potentially most invasive” adware system developed to date.

More at Microsoft Files for Patent on Extensive Adware System


(btw, if you look up "sheep bleet" on Google, the first place position in the search results is for Zango)

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