Will Microsoft Put The Colonel in the Kernel?
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| "The kernel meets The Colonel in a just-published Microsoft patent
| application for an Advertising Services Architecture, which delivers targeted
| advertising as 'part of the OS.'
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/14/043200
Microsoft thought about embedding ads in the login screen. It apprears as
thought they changed their minds last year. They also patented a method
for /forcing/ people to wants ads on devices like TiVo (maybe Zune will be
affected too).
Adverts in healthcare:
What's really behind Microsoft's healthcare push?
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| If and when Microsoft does launch a Live Healthcare service,
| it would mark the first time Microsoft has discussed a vertical
| Windows Live service.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=285
Bad adverts:
"Microsoft Selling SEX to children!"
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| It advertises “Check out todays top 10 videos” with a picture of
| children watching videos and eating popcorn. SHAME ON YOU MICROSOFT
| for selling sex to children!
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http://davidostler.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/hello-world/
New Microsoft Ad Features Girl's Orgasm
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| The ad shows a teenager asking her dad if she can stay out late on
| a date. The dad agrees on a 10:30 curfew, then answers the door.
| When he sees a cigarette-smoking punk at the door to take out hisd
| aughter, the video flashes to a half-second scene showing a car
| parked in some disreputable section of town, bouncing up and down,
| with the SOUND OF THE GIRL'S ORGASM...
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http://www.therawfeed.com/2007/05/new-microsoft-ad-features-teen-girls.html
UK advertising authority nixes Xbox 360 spot
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| The UK's Advertising Standards Authority, an industry self-policing
| group, has ruled that an ad for Microsoft's Xbox 360 is out of
| bounds and can't be aired there again.
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/113551.asp
Viral Marketing Leads to Mock Gunfight
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| The latest in a series of attempts around the world to mimic the
| segment that, according to media analysts, amounts to free "viral
| advertising" for Microsoft Corp.
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| The latest incident took place on Tuesday in the cafeteria at
| South Carleton High School when a crowd of students shot finger
| guns at one another and feigned death by either falling or
| slumping to the ground.
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http://www.onthexbox.com/news981.html
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