http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft patents reveal dubious ad client, helpful clipping lists http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/Jul 16th 2007 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/In the ass!]]>Jul 16th 2007 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/Jul 16th 2007 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/This is how history gets rewritten.

The current count is 200 patent violations by Linux.
Soon Linux will violate 201 Microsoft patents ...

Linux Beryl and OSX users will no longer be allowed to look at their clippings on the taskbar, unless you look at it directly.

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MS is in dire need of an ethics department. Or maybe even just a common sense dept. ]]>Jul 16th 2007 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.hanselman.com/blog/content/binary/spywareitsbeta.jpg]]>Jul 16th 2007 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/
MS and Google both scare me a little bit.]]>Jul 16th 2007 7:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/Jul 16th 2007 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/-Taylor]]>Jul 16th 2007 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/Jul 16th 2007 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/
But yeah..that was funny.]]>Jul 17th 2007 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/
next is the Dreams beamed with commercials]]>Jul 16th 2007 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/Jul 16th 2007 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/Jul 17th 2007 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/Jul 16th 2007 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/]]>Jul 16th 2007 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/Jul 17th 2007 2:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/
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I'll remember to build my new PCs with OS X/Ubuntu in mind, this is just getting ridiculous.

The only MS software products that I really enjoy are Visual Studio (2005) and Office (2007 especially), the rest, well... no comment. I guess MSN too if you count that... ]]>Jul 17th 2007 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/
It's bad enough I have to load and run software to stop this crap just from surfing...but Now It's being built into the OS!!!...

Where's my gun...No...where's my Tank!]]>Jul 17th 2007 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/Jul 17th 2007 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/16/microsoft-patents-reveal-dubious-ad-client-helpful-clipping-lis/
If being advertised to is an inescapable fact of life in the 21st century, wouldn't you prefer to be served an advertisement that actually might pertain to something you may be interested in?]]>Jul 25th 2007 4:39PM