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Why are Microsoft doing this? One explanation is morality - they are doing it for the greater good. Another explaination is branding - they want to look like th
by mc3 7y ago
Why are Microsoft doing this? One explanation is morality - they are doing it for the greater good. Another explaination is branding - they want to look like the new "no evil company" which ties in with their open source initiatives. It could also be a way to prevent Google having too much power which is a good thing for Microsoft. It also might be to sell more Windows licences, but I doubt this would factor into the decision about what OS to use. Or it is just that technical people got to make the decision unhampered by management, and technical people value privacy.
- godelski 7y agoThere's the age old question, "if someone does something good for the wrong reasons, are those things still good?" I for one welcome the new competitive facade of privacy and security. Minor improvements are at least improvements.
- zamadatix 7y agoIt could also be that it was looking like a nightmare world where every app had its own independent DNS configuration and they didn't want to have to deal with that.