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owsf2000You know this kinda thing was going to happen eventually yes? Sure, you can turn off the advertising but not everyone is going to know how to do that, and if a lot of people do you know they'll just "redesign" the layout so that you have to dig through an extra 10 menus to get to the option that a "faulty" windows upgrade will conveniently turn back on.
I'm -assuming- that the ads are purely images right now. Can you imagine the annoyance factor if your computer started screeching out full screen TV quality ads? Flash ads? javascript ads?
The stupidity of this is that this is on the lock screen. You know, the screen likely to be displayed WHEN NOBODY IS PROBABLY AROUND TO SEE IT. Probably why they picked that screen to "test the waters" actually. "Oh we started doing this and didn't get much negative feedback so we figured it was ok to add it to the joke of a start menu as well."
Perhaps it'll become the new screen saver - with the user having to pay a fee to disable it so they can choose their own screen saver.
If they do start running flash/javascript ads in this manner, I'm going to fucking laugh when malware gets through their QA marketing team and people start getting infected as soon as they lock their computer. (or it locks itself after X idle minutes, for those with good security sense.)
I'm -assuming- that the ads are purely images right now. Can you imagine the annoyance factor if your computer started screeching out full screen TV quality ads? Flash ads? javascript ads?
The stupidity of this is that this is on the lock screen. You know, the screen likely to be displayed WHEN NOBODY IS PROBABLY AROUND TO SEE IT. Probably why they picked that screen to "test the waters" actually. "Oh we started doing this and didn't get much negative feedback so we figured it was ok to add it to the joke of a start menu as well."
Perhaps it'll become the new screen saver - with the user having to pay a fee to disable it so they can choose their own screen saver.
If they do start running flash/javascript ads in this manner, I'm going to fucking laugh when malware gets through their QA marketing team and people start getting infected as soon as they lock their computer. (or it locks itself after X idle minutes, for those with good security sense.)
