____/ High Plains Thumper on Saturday 20 October 2007 12:25 : \____
> [H]omer wrote:
>> Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>
>>> Watch the video.
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/v/M0sy2i5FMcI
>>
>> Seen it. It's a pretty damning indictment of Vista.
>
> They even have a song about it, hilarious!
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kql8cWqiv8
Ballmer: Vista reads your E-mails.
It's Evil.
Sarcasm about the London talk? Not quite so.
Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems
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| The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to
| sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files,
| user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status
| messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more. How could
| we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status
| messages?
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of-all-adware-systems.html
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