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Google does a good job with marketing against Apple with "Open", it would do wonders for MS to market against Google with "Privacy".
by tvon 17y ago
Google does a good job with marketing against Apple with "Open", it would do wonders for MS to market against Google with "Privacy".
- nl 17y agoWhy does anyone think Microsoft protects your privacy any better than Google does? FFS, Google was the ONLY search engine which went to court to protect your searches from collection under COPA: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-146420.html http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-146420.html Microsoft, Yahoo etc just handed their logs over. Gmail's still the only webmail provider which uses SSL by default. There are numerous similar cases. Microsoft can't use "Privacy" to market against Google because they do less to protect your privacy that Google do. (They could argue "we are less competent than Google are at doing things with the information we also collect, so you are less likely to get freaked out when our services appear to read your mind". However, I'm unconvinced that lack-of-competence is a winning marketing strategy. But hey.. it seems to be working for Sarah Palin, so what do I know...)
- lwhi 17y agoI think this is a game of 'what if'. If providing tools to manage privacy gave MS an advantage, I could imagine there's at least a possibility they might supply them.