http://www.bloggingwv.com/microsofts-adware-plans-integrate-into-the-os/ (The West Virginia Blogger) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:45:15 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.bloggingwv.com/microsofts-adware-plans-integrate-into-the-os/#comment-5150 Stephen Lauder Sun, 22 Jul 2007 06:41:52 +0000 http://www.bloggingwv.com/microsofts-adware-plans-integrate-into-the-os/#comment-5150 I can remember a promotion in USA where free pc's were given out, but which came preloaded with adverts in them. It sounds like Microsoft has taken this one step further with the context-based O/S advertising. I can't imagine the anti-microsoft crowd allowing this to go un-noticed. After all, look at all the hoopla when Internet Explorer was claimed to be an integral component of the O/S.... there's been fireworks about this for years. I can remember a promotion in USA where free pc’s were given out, but which came preloaded with adverts in them. It sounds like Microsoft has taken this one step further with the context-based O/S advertising. I can’t imagine the anti-microsoft crowd allowing this to go un-noticed. After all, look at all the hoopla when Internet Explorer was claimed to be an integral component of the O/S…. there’s been fireworks about this for years.

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