Do you want to see an advertisement when you are typing a document? Microsoft has a pilot program where it is offering free software to computer manufactures. The software has advertisement displayed while you are using the so called free program. Is this what you want or need when you are creating document?
CNET is reporting Microsoft Vice President Chris Capossela saying,
“People have liked the price,” he said with a laugh, adding that it has also not been perceived as that intrusive, something Microsoft had worried about.
Capossela said the main idea is to try and have a product that can be pitched by the Geek Squads of the world when people buy a new PC at retail. Tech benches, as these services are known generically, have become an important avenue for consumer software sales.
It sounds like Microsoft is trying to cozy up to the big manufactures and chain stores to take advantage of the unknowing or technically challenged consumer.
Anytime a program is going out online and placing advertisement on your computer while you work is intrusive. Is this one of those situations where people in their zeal for “cheap stuff” compromise their privacy and sell out to a corporation making billions at their expense? I think the online community should get their hands on the source code and make the program truly free. In other words the program should be hacked!
This just makes me more of a supporter of open source programs such as OpenOffice and Linux. Use the link to OpenOffice to learn more about a truly free program I use daily and I am completely satisfied with.
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