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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 54679

Microsoft has published a U.S. patent application that describes pausing games to show ads after natural breaks such as boss fights, cutscenes, quests, and multiplayer rounds.

The filing, US 2026/0260258 A1 and titled Contextually Aware Management of Interactive Software Application Access, was filed on April 23, 2026 and pub...

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gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2675

As long as we are warned in advance, we can skip the telemarketer slop. M$ is really trying hard to be hated as much as possible. Do they not see Steam OS and other applications that run games under different Linux distros?! I guess they are still counting that as <1% of users. That is going to change, it already is.