Microsoft patents mother of all adware systems

While Apple, Samsung and zillions of other companies are patenting cool stuff everyday, Microsoft is innovating its way, once again.

In fact, Microsoft has patented the mother of all adwares: a framework (definition: a set of software routines that can be used in every program) to deliver advertisements, based on the content of the user's hard drive, that cannot be controlled by the user himself.

What an invention! Users will continuously be disturbed by ads, that violate privacy and that cannot be stopped. Microsoft is selling your privacy to become even richer. Wow.


Source: Slashdot, InformationWeek