News Story Ads in your OS?

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Fri, 10/23/2009 - 12:32

Sometimes you see something and you really, really hope it's a hoax. Take this story on Slashdot, which confirms if true that Apple has applied for a patent to put advertising into its operating systems .

I really, really don't want adverts when I switch my computer on. Actually that's not strictly true; I tried it once, when ISPs were experimenting with how to go free in the 1990s and one of the ideas was that you could...


 

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