Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Oct 2009 22:04 UTC
Are you familiar with Microsoft Works? It's sort of a My First Office Suite kind of thing which includes support for Microsoft Word and Excel documents. It is usually not sold separately, but instead comes pre-installed on new OEM machines. Well, Microsoft has announced today that it will kill Microsoft Works, and replace it with Microsoft Office 2010 Starter - an ad-supported version of Office 2010.
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So imagine every document created with MS Office and being sent around the world came with an ad!
Umm. The ads are displayed by Office, they are not linked with the documents themselves. Heck, that'd just drive corporate users away from Office, they pay huge money in order to get a full Office suite without any kinds of nags or ads.
Now imagine that MS can build a database of info about all the documents on your computer, then link this database to Bing
What would the use be? Other than obvious privacy issues, would you want all your documents and work data be searchable via Bing?