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Re: Windows to become Adware and User Data Collection Service

'A patent' and 'an implementation delivered in Windows' are two different things. They don't need a patent to show ads in Windows, if that's what you're worried about (and I am, too - I'd avoid ad-supported Windows just like I avoid ad-supported radio and ad-supported TV).

On the other hand, I suppose the bad news is that it shows that someone in Microsoft is thinking about it. But we already knew that, from their acquisitions of online ad companies, right? Without that second datum, it would be possible to assume this is 'just research' - every large company does some amount that.
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