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    Mother of all adware patented by Microsoft!

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Pitabred, Jul 17, 2007.

  1. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    I can't wait until they roll this out as part of a service pack...

    Ars Technica has all the annoying details. Your information just got a lot less yours if you run Microsoft software :)
     
    Pitabred, Jul 17, 2007
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  2. tebore

    tebore Notebook Evangelist

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    Time to start using Ubuntu again and relearn how to compile my old Kernal.
     
    tebore, Jul 17, 2007
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  3. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Fortunately modern Linux flavors pretty much never require a kernel compile. If it does, you're doing something wrong, or doing something highly geeky.
     
    Pitabred, Jul 17, 2007
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  4. LFC

    LFC Ex-NBR

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    Meh. Google already already beat them to it in my eyes. Custom tailored adverts as I read my email

    :cool:
     
    LFC, Jul 17, 2007
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    Crimsonman Ex NBR member :cry:

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    I guess this country is more restricted and public than free and private
     
    Crimsonman, Jul 17, 2007
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    oh ,my god!!!! Bill gates... i hate you.... why would you do this?!?!!?!? time for everyone to move to apple and linux
     
    aan310, Jul 17, 2007
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    I can not imagine this being a defualt part of Windows. They would be signing their death warrant.

    Maybe it will come with a free versions of Office or something. Where you have to see ads whenever you do anything. But can you imagine paying $400 for a OS then seeing Ads plastered all over, and your personal date harvested and supplied to advertisers? Apple and Linux would clean up.
     
    CodeMonkeyX, Jul 17, 2007
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  8. tebore

    tebore Notebook Evangelist

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    I am Highly geeky. Back when I was Electrical engineering I was surrounded by *nix users and I tried out Ubuntu. Being the geek I am I figured I'd look in to a more refined and customized Kernal for my machine. My first attempted worked(kinda). As school ended I gave up and went back to XP.


    Anyway how broken is the patent system that MS can patent this? Don't most if not all spyware operate on this principle? Hell Gmail does this.
     
    tebore, Jul 17, 2007
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  9. LIVEFRMNYC

    LIVEFRMNYC Blah Blah Blah!!!

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    Windows just might, sooner or later be an OS that I will never use while connected Online.

    Once I get a Mac w/leapord OSX and Load it with Ubuntu too, then I might just use windows for certain offline things.
     
    LIVEFRMNYC, Jul 17, 2007
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  10. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Ummm, if that ever becomes required for an MS OS I'm definitely switching to OS X or Linux...

    Seriously. So will all IT departments I'm sure, as they do not want a HDD crawler going through all their files.

    Programs with ads? I'm sorry...I do not support programs that you pay for that still have advertising.
     
    Greg, Jul 17, 2007
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    I never thought Microsoft would go this far...
     
    furrycute, Jul 17, 2007
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  12. RogueMonk

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    Its just a patent file. Don't have a heart attack.
     
    RogueMonk, Jul 18, 2007
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