Gates weighs in on spyware issue
InternetNews | at | by Mike
"We are going to help users be in control," Bill Gates declared Friday at MSN's Strategic Account Summit, speaking out against spyware to an audience of advertisers and marketers -- exactly the type of people interested in the kind of data such programs, at least the legitimate ones, harvest.
"So-called spyware is turning the Internet into a billboard. We are going to help users be in control and know what [spyware] is on their system and if they don't want it they can get it off their system," said Gates. The chairman of Microsoft spoke before an audience of about 500 near the end of the two-day conference for clients and partners.