Windows To Put Ads On Your Start Menu!

Aea · July 2004

<div class="IPBDescription">Microsoft Market Place included with SP2</div> I can hardly believe this, Microsoft is trying to take over everything with it's greedy fingers...

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DragonMech · July 2004

Jesus, he's right:

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Microsoft is working on a new shopping Web site for software, hardware, and peripherals that it plans to advertise <b>in the Windows XP Start Menu</b> and the Internet Explorer Web browser.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

They better damn well have a way to turn it off.

Hibame · July 2004

Didnt the us defence opr something like that say IE is officaly unsecure and that it can no longer be forced on windows users

Infinitum · July 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Also, the Start Menu link that currently points to the Windows Catalog will likely redirect to the Windows Marketplace in the future</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

I doubt Microsoft would shove advertisements in your place... Just go to Start -> Programs and look up the top. Blammo, Windows Catalog.

They're probably just gonna replace that link with Marketplace.

I'd love all the lovely little lawsuits that would spring up if Microsoft started shoving advertisements down your throat.

Jimmeh · July 2004

*Insert Talesin_BatBat saying something about how Linux > Windows here*

NumbersNotFound · July 2004

Wasn't this a HUGE controversy with the release of Win98 (or was it 95)? I'm pretty sure they were gonna have a group in the start-menu that went to preset sites... was it called the DisneyBar or something?

JHunz · July 2004

This will likely be through a windows update of some sort. Don't download that update <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Jim_has_Skillz · July 2004

Holy crap, Talesin likes linux!! We can agree on something! Now he just has to convert to Nvidia.

As for advertisements in the start menu, yeah that is gonna be really annoying and will probably be optional due to lawsuits arising. But I mean, you can understand why people advertise, just look at your signature, its full of that crap.

Caboose · July 2004

/me is on Mandrake 10 <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /> Happy me. Even in Windows when I use it, I refuse to touch IE, or even explorer for that matter. Litestep > Explorer.

Aea · July 2004

Litestep = Crap on Duel Monitors :/

Quaunaut · July 2004

Your monitors fight?(dual)

I honestly doubt it'll be more than just a extension of the Windows Catalog. Windows doesn't advertise that heavy now, and I doubt they'd go worse.

Chaos_Llama · July 2004

Even if microsoft gets slapped with lawsuits, they can keep ignoring them till the end of time.

MedHead · July 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hibame @ Jul 12 2004, 02:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Didnt the us defence opr something like that say IE is officaly unsecure and that it can no longer be forced on windows users </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
The US Department of Homeland Security is the organization you are seeking.

I know of a patch that will solve this - it's called Windows 2000. Why anyone would <b>choose</b> to "upgrade" to Windows XPoo is... well, it's <i>wrong</i>, that's what it is. With that mentality, you should go trade in your BMW for a Yugo. If you have a BMW, that is. Oh, nevermind.

EDIT: I was browsing the Microsoft website, and <a href='http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/using/howto/privacy/secprivessntl.mspx' target='_blank'> this link</a> was on the front page. I think "Ha Ha (repeating)" would be an appropriate description of the contents of said page.

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Microsoft)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Using Internet Explorer 6 is your first big step toward a browsing experience that helps protect your privacy and the security of your computer on the Web.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

Sid · July 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MedHead @ Jul 12 2004, 10:32 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> </div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Hibame @ Jul 12 2004, 02:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Didnt the us defence opr something like that say IE is officaly unsecure and that it can no longer be forced on windows users </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
The US Department of Homeland Security is the organization you are seeking.

I know of a patch that will solve this - it's called Windows 2000. Why anyone would <b>choose</b> to "upgrade" to Windows XPoo is... well, it's <i>wrong</i>, that's what it is. With that mentality, you should go trade in your BMW for a Yugo. If you have a BMW, that is. Oh, nevermind.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Hey - you leave the poor ol' Yugo out of this! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

MedHead · July 2004

I shall not. A Yugo a no-no in terms of "go-go". What does that mean?! I just made it up because it rhymed. And because Yugos aren't exactly performance cars. Yugos are le junk, as the French would put it. Well, at least they are le ugly.

Mantrid · July 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (MedHead)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Well, at least they are le ugly.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Like le face de you? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' />

Its almost french!

Delarosa · July 2004

why complain, you know that there will always be a way to turn it off or un-install it...

Kaine · July 2004

I'm of the "screw XP use 2k" school. 2k does everything i want, it doesn't chew as much resources and for me its always been more stable. i probably won't be using XP for a loong loooong time, or never if i can help it.

Fro5ty · July 2004

IMHO, 2k has been one of the best OSes that MS has ever made. With 98>>>SE<<< being up there too. I remember back when XP came out and I looked at the minimums for it, my computer at the time didn't even get near em. As for my current one, I could install it and it work fine, but if it aint broke, why fix it? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /> I mean, I get my computer to boot up ALL the way into windows (from pushing the power button) in under a minute. I haven't encountered any OSes like that, even my brief exploration of LINUX. It would start into the CUI, and it still took a couple of minutes for it to do it. Not to mentin the fact that it takes it like 10 minutes to get into the GUI, and that's what most people use.

Mantrid: Hey, you didn't have to roll through the French country side in a French made tin-can with a bulls-eye on the side with Germans shooting you and trying to blow you up. So what would you know? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />

Med: It's like trading in an old Charger with that nice Hemi for a Mickey Moused Geo with a GPS that rewards you for finding your way around.

Mantrid · July 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Fr05t @ Jul 13 2004, 01:34 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Mantrid: Hey, you didn't have to roll through the French country side in a French made tin-can with a bulls-eye on the side with Germans shooting you and trying to blow you up. So what would you know? <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' />  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
That rolling through the French country side in a French made tin-can with a bulls-eye on the side with Germans shooting me and trying to blow me up was hazardous to my health.

Dorian_Gray · July 2004

If these ads really are intrusive, people will find/make a way to get rid of them. Either that, or wake up and smell the penguin and switch to linux. Actually... I don't imagine a penguin smells very good...

Caboose · July 2004

You sir, have not lived untell you have smelled a penguin!

Aea · July 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Caboose @ Jul 14 2004, 12:54 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> You sir, have not lived untell you have smelled a penguin!  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
They smell like fish...

Btw, I'm using XP right now (although I am a big fan of 2000, I kinda lost the disk), and I'm using it right now. Boots in under 30 seconds flat, and as for linux, my server machine boots in about the same :/

SoulSkorpion · July 2004

Mmm... Penguin...

...

Anyway, where is this mythical "Windows Catalogue" of which you speak? It doesn't seem to be in my Start menu....

littlewild · July 2004

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Caboose @ Jul 12 2004, 03:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> /me is on Mandrake 10 <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /> Happy me. Even in Windows when I use it, I refuse to touch IE, or even explorer for that matter. Litestep > Explorer.  </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> 
Then how did you manage to run Steam with Wine?

Chaos_Llama · July 2004

Windows Server 2003, is far more stabler and faster than 2000 and XP combined. Takes around 15 seconds to boot up even with tons of crap installed. Only problem is compatibility issues with software <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' />

Thansal · July 2004

/me humms his happy song with win 2K

as a side note

it will be tops of 3 days before some one figgures out a way to get around this and remove the adds <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' />

Salvation · July 2004

we must learn to use linux well <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' />

Windows To Put Ads On Your Start Menu!

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