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I'm not sure if it's okay to call the entire Silicon Valley has gone rogue. Satya Nadella's Microsoft is still one company that's not part of these controversie
by amrrs 8y ago
I'm not sure if it's okay to call the entire Silicon Valley has gone rogue. Satya Nadella's Microsoft is still one company that's not part of these controversies and yet trying to innovate at the same time. What's disheartening is how Apple has become like IBM rather than Amazon. Probably, Always listening on Speaker that can steal couple's conversation wasn't their thing but they failed to capitalize on the love Siri had received!
- pvg 8y agoMicrosoft is not a Silicon Valley company and they are very much involved in these 'controversies' - lots of people have serious concerns about Windows 10 and privacy and, of course, Microsoft runs a search engine, a chat/VoIP service among many other things.
- _bxg1 8y agoMicrosoft is no angel, it's just dwarfed by the egregiousness of Facebook, Google, and Amazon. It still does some sketchy data-collecting in Windows unless you opt-out (though it's backed off a bit since that came to light). Microsoft can afford to not fully partake in the skeeviness because a) it's not in the ad business, and b) it is in the enterprise business. Enterprise customers won't put up with that stuff, and they have the money to pay for that privilege. So when Microsoft makes most of their money that way, their business model isn't centered around the other stuff, and customers get partially spared from it by proximity.