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License this cool patent - seems much profit can be made here.

-240 points posted to Linux by jmxz 07/17/07

Wow this is an audacious

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-microsoft-patents-the-mother-of...

Microsoft patents the mother of all adware systems

The adware framework would leave almost no data untouched in its quest to sell you stuff. It would inspect "user document files, user e-mail files, user music files, downloaded podcasts, computer settings, computer status messages (e.g., a low memory status or low printer ink)," and more.


Seems some of your customers don't mind the spyware built into Vista (those who voted down the linked idea here) so they shouldn't mind the obvious consequences. For those users just take the next step and take advantage of the profit opportunity they're giving you.

[Why isn't there a Microsoft category to parallel the Linux one? I guess since the press describes Vista as The Best Think That Ever Happened To Linux I'll put it in the Linux category.]

Dell - please stay focused on the highest-voted ideas, though. Don't distract yourselves with this one until you've addressed the ideas below which have been the top-ranked ideas for at least 6 months without adequate responses..
  1. 147,808 - dhart - Pre-Installed Linux [and not just on a couple obsolete models in limited geographies]
  2. 127,719 - dhart - Pre-Installed OpenOffice | alternative to MS Works & MS Office
  3. 107,313 - robinjfisher - Have Firefox pre-installed as default browser
  4. 89,183 - ootleman - No Extra Software Option [only a couple models are crapware-free today]
  5. 78,007 - gergnz - Provide Linux Drivers for all your Hardware
  6. 73,600 - agreer - No OS Preloaded [and not just on a couple obsolete models]


reg
07/18/07		 Microsoft should just update the next EULA for Windows Vista UPDATE to include the following:

All content opened, modified or saved through Windows Vista automatically transfers the rights, copyrights, and publishing rights directly to Microsoft.

In this manner, Microsoft can take full ownership of all data created or used through windows Vista.
In a few weeks, Microsoft would own all the content of every publisher, company, government, and individual user of Windows Vista.

Microsoft then can sell the content for whatever it is worth, or simply sell it back to the people who entered the data into Windows Vista in the first place. Profits would triple!

No body ever really reads the EULA - so Microsoft will get to own a lot of content very easily.
 
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