Ad-Supported Windows? No Thanks.

According to CNET, Microsoft may be planning on releasing ad-supported versions of their products. In particular, they were thinking about ad-supported versions of Works, Money, or (possibly) the whole OS.

To me, this seems like a desperate attempt to get people back over to MS's proprietary formats. I don't know if you have ever used Works before, but it is a complete piece of crap. Not only is it a horrible word processor, but it can't view nor edit MS Word files despite the fact that Microsoft created the format. To me, that is pathetic.

And an ad-supported version of Windows? Definitely not. Having ads in an individual application is one thing, but having to view ads whenever using the computer is just absurd. Why would you put up with that if you could pop in an Ubuntu or Kubuntu CD and try a great, fast, fully-featured free and Open Source OS without even needing to install it? Whoever doesn't is just being stupid.