I've blogged about how Microsoft has a
wealth of spyware on your computer (Vista) for "piracy" reasons, but this is altogether
far more sinister.
Feel free to read the article itself, but this is bad, bad news. What they're going to do is scan the content of your files, e-mail, music, and system status alerts to profile you and target you with ads. Penny Arcade covered this concept in
one of their comics titled "Advertising in the Future". That was last October.
(For non-gamers, the comic describes a situation where two guys are playing a game, but see different in-game advertising based on the contents of their Internet browser history).
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