Microsoft adding advertising to Windows
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A subtle thing but an increasingly annoying thing. I have a bunch of machines I constantly work on, and I haven't 'adjusted' all the properties of IE on all the machines to make IE Not Do Dumb Things. The thing that is really starting to iritate me is how, when you type in a bad URL or filename, IE automatically goes to MSN and tries to search for whatever it is you are looking for. Complete with pop-up ads. Microsoft went through Hell defending it's right to integrate IE with the OS - and as far as I'm concerned it's a Good Thing to have the browser and file finder as the same application. What irritates me is when a very subtle and tentative line is crossed and the thing you pay for and rely on every second of your work day becomes yet another means to send you pop-ups. cheers, Chris Maunder
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A subtle thing but an increasingly annoying thing. I have a bunch of machines I constantly work on, and I haven't 'adjusted' all the properties of IE on all the machines to make IE Not Do Dumb Things. The thing that is really starting to iritate me is how, when you type in a bad URL or filename, IE automatically goes to MSN and tries to search for whatever it is you are looking for. Complete with pop-up ads. Microsoft went through Hell defending it's right to integrate IE with the OS - and as far as I'm concerned it's a Good Thing to have the browser and file finder as the same application. What irritates me is when a very subtle and tentative line is crossed and the thing you pay for and rely on every second of your work day becomes yet another means to send you pop-ups. cheers, Chris Maunder
That reminds me of when an old cow-orker showed me MS Money a couple years ago. It's all spiffy web-based stuff, and in some areas of the app, web pages (served off the net, not local) are shown inside the app. And on those pages... you guessed it, advertising. That's very bloody offensive IMODO to have that in payware. Ad-supported freeware (like Opera), sure. But not in something users pay to use. --Mike-- "Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things." -- Silent Bob 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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That reminds me of when an old cow-orker showed me MS Money a couple years ago. It's all spiffy web-based stuff, and in some areas of the app, web pages (served off the net, not local) are shown inside the app. And on those pages... you guessed it, advertising. That's very bloody offensive IMODO to have that in payware. Ad-supported freeware (like Opera), sure. But not in something users pay to use. --Mike-- "Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things." -- Silent Bob 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
Michael Dunn wrote: cow-orker Another member of DNRC. :-D That's my second favorite newsletter to get. I don't think I need to tell you what my first favorite is. :rolleyes: Anyway, how'd you like last weeks, with the cow-orkers who use phrases the wrong way. That had me cracking up. :)
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That reminds me of when an old cow-orker showed me MS Money a couple years ago. It's all spiffy web-based stuff, and in some areas of the app, web pages (served off the net, not local) are shown inside the app. And on those pages... you guessed it, advertising. That's very bloody offensive IMODO to have that in payware. Ad-supported freeware (like Opera), sure. But not in something users pay to use. --Mike-- "Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things." -- Silent Bob 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
Michael Dunn wrote: an old cow-orker I have workered with cows all my life, but can you please tell me what an orker is and what they do to cows:confused::confused:
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That reminds me of when an old cow-orker showed me MS Money a couple years ago. It's all spiffy web-based stuff, and in some areas of the app, web pages (served off the net, not local) are shown inside the app. And on those pages... you guessed it, advertising. That's very bloody offensive IMODO to have that in payware. Ad-supported freeware (like Opera), sure. But not in something users pay to use. --Mike-- "Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things." -- Silent Bob 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
It is perfectly valid for them to advertise in those services when they are not part of the basic Money product itself - imagine how much they cost to run (the services) compared the the relative pittance the paid product costs off-the-shelf. And it's not as if it's not targetted advertising: the only ad's I've ever seen were for companies providing services that were of interest to the task I was performing -subtle targetted advertising IMHO is not a Bad Thing™.
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
David Wulff Born and Bred.
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A subtle thing but an increasingly annoying thing. I have a bunch of machines I constantly work on, and I haven't 'adjusted' all the properties of IE on all the machines to make IE Not Do Dumb Things. The thing that is really starting to iritate me is how, when you type in a bad URL or filename, IE automatically goes to MSN and tries to search for whatever it is you are looking for. Complete with pop-up ads. Microsoft went through Hell defending it's right to integrate IE with the OS - and as far as I'm concerned it's a Good Thing to have the browser and file finder as the same application. What irritates me is when a very subtle and tentative line is crossed and the thing you pay for and rely on every second of your work day becomes yet another means to send you pop-ups. cheers, Chris Maunder
Mine does that too, though I've never experienced a pop-up because of it. Then again, whilst I can see "auto.search.msn.com..." in the status bar when I make an mistake with an URL, it is Yahoo! UK and Ireland that loads. That's surely a Good Thing™?
David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk
David Wulff Born and Bred.
