Microsoft Seeks Another OS-Level Adware Patent

theodp writes "Microsoft has just published a patent application for advertising triggered by sequences of user actions, which describes how to interrupt game playing, music listening, and photo viewing with pop-up ads ('the components may be integrated directly into the operating system'). So will this ad technology get a free pass from Windows Defender?"

Comments

Re:Hints of a Free Windows

[moderatorrater]

I hope that's what it's hinting at, because the alternatives really suck.

Re:Hints of a Free Windows

[Mattsson]

Windows is already ad supported, if you use the default settings.
Every internet-tool that MS supplies are ridden with ads. In some cases there are so much ads that it is hard to use the actual tool.
One would think that a company like MS could afford to offer a search-engine or an IM-service without having to use 99% of the interface-area for ads. :/