> most people see MS as bad and embrace Google for being "ethical". IDK if it's just me, but I've seen an above-average number of news stories in the last year

> most people see MS as bad and embrace Google for being "ethical". IDK if it's just me, but I've seen an above-average number of news stories in the last year about how Google is not a consumer-friendly, trustworthy company now. The general public is, I guess, becoming more and more aware of this perspective. We've certainly heard a lot about Facebook's privacy breaches and other problems. As a tech company, Google's reputation is probably hurt by that too. It seems to me that Google has probably entered a new public relations era. And it's pretty hard to go back to the old days where consumers believed in "Don't Be Evil."