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Microsoft is absolutely out of control with this shit. I was recently flipping through BI articles and came across this [0]. “Using data from millions of its
by us0r 10y ago
Microsoft is absolutely out of control with this shit. I was recently flipping through BI articles and came across this [0]. “Using data from millions of its subscribers … The findings come from people who use Microsoft Word and/or Outlook”. WTF? Sure enough, I opted out of telemetry but that apparently doesn’t include the content of business documents and email. 7 clicks to find that option. I guarantee you 99% of Office 365 users have no idea this is happening.
Microsoft customers aren’t getting scroogled, they are getting straight fucked. Not only are they slurping everything imaginable up, but actual people are going through the data and doing stories on business insider.
My problem is I actually like their products. I’m cheering for the day the EU (the US won’t do anything so sadly I have to cheer for a foreign government) wakes up and slaps them around. Hopefully it’s hard enough to get them to change their ways.
http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-data-the-most-confusing-words-in-english-2017-3 http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-data-the-most-confu...
- douche 10y agoI'm sure Microsoft is mining Office 365 as hard as Google is mining GMail. To believe otherwise seems incredibly naive.
- veli_joza 10y agoI don't think one is better than the other, but it comes down to average user's expectations from cloud software and from desktop software. My last company was very paranoid about security. Things like never leaving your desktop unattended, changing password every 4 weeks, encrypted disks, encrypted emails, forbidding most of cloud services... All the while happily using Windows and Outlook. Also, although Google knows everything about me, they have so far managed to prevent security incidents, leaks and embarrassing deals (apart being forced to provide backdoor to NSA). They seem to know what they are doing security-wise.
- saiya-jin 10y agowith gmail this is expected, it's google which owns adsense. not so much with M$. one is free (paid with targeted ads), the other paid.