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I think it's not that people don't trust Microsoft with their data (they obviously do if they use Windows, as you note), it's that they don't trust Microsoft to
by woodruffw 2y ago
I think it's not that people don't trust Microsoft with their data (they obviously do if they use Windows, as you note), it's that they don't trust Microsoft to have performed basic diligence on data control within this feature.
- Spivak 2y agoIt's on the user side of the airtight hatchway, that's good enough. If you could read my browser history you could read this and vice versa.
- woodruffw 2y agoIf I remember correctly, one of the original concerns was that the feature didn't respect user boundaries on the host machine itself. In other words: multiple users sharing a machine could inadvertently (or intentionally) retrieve information about each other. That would be a straightforward example of "can't read the browser history for a user, but could read it indirectly via the agent."
- indymike 2y ago> it's not that people don't trust Microsoft with their data Let me fix that... People don't trust Microsoft.
- woodruffw 2y agoPer the GP, there's a great deal of evidence that people have a revealed preference for trusting Microsoft, if they're already in the Microsoft ecosystem. (I don't particularly trust Microsoft, but I'm also not in their ecosystem.)
- indymike 2y agoThis assumes those people have a credible alternative, which in most cases they do not.
- woodruffw 2y ago25 years ago (or even 15 years ago), I would have probably agreed. But I don't think that's true anymore; to my understanding, students in public schools are equally as likely to use Chromebooks as they are to use Windows or Mac machines.