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Why should MS change its strategy? They might as well double-down on their strategy and grab as much data about you as they can. What are you going to do abou
by Grishnakh 10y ago
Why should MS change its strategy? They might as well double-down on their strategy and grab as much data about you as they can. What are you going to do about it? Most MS customers have shown they will not abandon Windows, no matter what, so it would be dumb for MS to worry about customers' feelings about being spied on.
- phatfish 10y agoI think if MS had a share of the mobile market greater than 2% (or whatever it is at now) they would be less inclined to enable such spying through their desktop OS. However they are nowhere in mobile (and search), and desktop is the only source they have for user data. The thought of getting left behind in the data mining race by Google and Facebook must be a real concern, and they will do anything to keep up. I suppose the LinkedIn takeover has changed this somewhat, but LinkedIn alone will not put them on terms with Google/Facebook.