Built-in advertising: The Windows 8 feature you haven't heard about

Sony is trying the same thing in Europe on the PS3 by sneaking in a forced and unremovable SingStar advertising icon right in our gamelists. It is escalating into a downright PR catastrofy and European PS3 gamers are this close to marching down to SCEE headquarters with torches and pitforks.

Something tells me Microsift won't fare much better...

Who cares about a few ads, at least they aren't pop-up lol. the os runs faster than previous windows even with these ads, only slightly on faster computers, but slow computers get a huge boost in speed. I've been using the operating system since release and you can do everything you can on previous windows, with certain extras, my favourite beings Xbox connectivity without having to set up any extra software, the "play to..." Button in video player is just genius

Built-in advertising: The Windows 8 feature you haven't heard about

sorry folks !!
the title is misleading , the article is misleading .

by now we should all know what a browser window is , ... right ?
and if I open a browser and find advertising I shouldn't blame XP or Ubuntu , ... right ?

windows 8 comes with the live-tile feature .
each live-tile is an open browser window .

or more correctly in this case a mini-browser open window .
what ever is displayed on that tile is a stream from a web site .

and NOT embedded in windows 8 .

the live-feature can be turned on and off .
the live-tiles can be deleted .
Microsoft offers a free tool where you can make your own tiles .
including live-tiles .

sorry folks , ... much to-do about nothing !