Microsoft wants $10/year for you to play solitaire on Windows 10 like you used to on 7
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/08/01/183216/in-windows-10-ad-free-solitaire-will-cost-you-10----every-year?utm_source=feedly1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Wired UK reports that the pre-installed Solitaire on Windows 10 capitalizes on the long-cultivated addiction that some users have to the game with an interesting bargain: rather than being an ordinary included application like it used to be, what may be the world's most pervasive on-screen office time-sink of a game now comes with ads, unless a user wants to pay (by the month, or by the year) to remove those ads. - - - Wow. A rotten new privacy policy. Stealing users' bandwidth for their own commercial gain without asking permission first. Charging $10/year to kill ads on a game that had no ads on the version of Windows that most people are upgrading from. What's the difference between the "new" Microsoft and your average everyday cyber-scam? Pretty much nothing. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
