"Company becomes as evil as Google" does not cause much uproar, because people don't really consider Google evil (yet). I think what is more interesting is tha

"Company becomes as evil as Google" does not cause much uproar, because people don't really consider Google evil (yet). I think what is more interesting is that apparently Microsoft feels it will make more money of competing with Google head to head with information revenue, than by 1-upping Google by having a more consumer-oriented privacy policy. Would you think, keeping the recently revealed awesome outlook.com in mind, a good reminder campaign by Microsoft about how they _don't_ invade your privacy like Google does could have pulled you or your peers away from gmail (or Google-apps)? Perhaps that would've been too much risk, this being the obvious easy way of making revenue..