A recent patent application from Microsoft points to a possible future of Windows-based adware on your desktop computer.If U.S. patent application 0070157227 is any indication, the software giant is developing a product or products that look at what’s on your hard drive and serve you targeted advertisements based on that data.

An Information Week article about this and other Microsoft patents speculates that such an application could scan your hard drive for music files, documents, e-mails and status messages to collect the targeting data.

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