Tuesday, July 17th 2007
Microsoft To Create The Best Adware ?
It seems that Microsoft is on a patent spree lately..After already filing two patents in the past month another patent filed by Microsoft just surfaced , this one however is for an "advertising framework" that uses "context data" from your computer's hard drive to pop up advertisements and "apportion and credit advertising revenue" to ad suppliers in real time.
"Applications, tools, or utilities may use an application program interface to report context data tags such as key words or other information that may be used to target advertisements. The advertising framework may host several components for receiving and processing the context data, refining the data, requesting advertisements from an advertising supplier, for receiving and forwarding advertisements to a display client for presentation, and for providing data back to the advertising supplier."
Source:
ArsTechnica
"Applications, tools, or utilities may use an application program interface to report context data tags such as key words or other information that may be used to target advertisements. The advertising framework may host several components for receiving and processing the context data, refining the data, requesting advertisements from an advertising supplier, for receiving and forwarding advertisements to a display client for presentation, and for providing data back to the advertising supplier."
16 Comments on Microsoft To Create The Best Adware ?
oh I was just looking at your specs....you have a e2160? lol....that must be a uber good processor since intel hasn't released it :rockout:see gsp link :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
Dell is already offering Ubuntu on certain computers, so it's not like the average joe will have to work hard to get Linux instead.
Although, if they use this for people with non-legit versions of Windows, it will either piss them off enough to buy a legit copy, or piss them off enough to just install Linux (or of course, made a way to bypass it, heheh).