Windows Home Server Completed, Microsoft Says

You all do know that Orwell was a paranoid old coot right?

Do you really think Big Brother gives a rat's patoot what's on your harddrive? What you need to be worried about is Little Sister who needs your CCN to buy new shoes.

While nobody can contend that Google is the mammoth of information absorbtion, simply entertaining the idea of an ad 'aware' OS on MS's part is bad for the industry. It's baseless bloat, and I could care less about the privacy argument, we arn't at the point where the home user has infinite compute power to be squandering on indexing to see if their preference in system memory coupled with music lineups could corillate to the panties they may intend on buying in the near future.

"what about Google...you don't think that they are already attempting to challenge this patent? You, as a marketing hack, should be in full support of this...its right up your alley!"

he won't criticize one of Apple's new bed buddies.

XP

@lotsa - yes, I read the article...tell me where it mentions WHS, which is the subject of this article and my contention with your lame argument? You take any opportunity to bash MS...what about Google...you don't think that they are already attempting to challenge this patent? You, as a marketing hack, should be in full support of this...its right up your alley!

RunTime - I agree, I with you...it has Big Brother written all over it.

--tayme

@ lotsa.

That article is f*cking scary stuff.

tayme: Puh-leez. Did you even read the article?

http://tinyurl.com/yq92kx

"The application...describes a multi-faceted, robust ad-delivering system that lives on a "user computer, whether it's part of the OS, an application or integrated within applications."

"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. How could we have been so blind as to not see the marketing value in computer status messages?"

And from the patent application:

"The ability to derive and process context data from local sources rather than monitor interactions with a remote entity, such as a server, benefits both consumers and advertisers by delivering more tightly targeted advertisements. The benefit to the user is the perception that the ads are more relevant, and therefore, less of an interruption. The benefit to the advertiser is better focus and a higher chance of conversion to a sale."

Microsoft. Patenting adware. Make sure you index the contents of your home server!