in.today.reuters.com— The company has begun combining personal data from the 263 million users of its free Hotmail email service with information gained from monitoring their searches, the paper said.
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Name something microsoft did to betray your trust...Also something they did to earn it was sue multiple spammers across the country and world. I think fighting for the little guy with our money is not bad. Also Gates is a democrat who has raised money for schools in my area and helped the poor. It seems the causes that Microsoft fights for are things digg users fight for... odd how that works.Oh but windows blows so they must have some hidden agenda cause I believe everything some guy said about them on the internet.
Who gives a royal FSCK?This one has never had a hotmail account.This one has never used MSN search - it uses FIreFox and Google.This one uses Linux and Mac OS X 99.44% of the time.The curs at Microsoft have NOTHING on this one.What's your excuse?
Lol, i love how totally off subject these comments can get.A)Personal Data -- Google and Yahoo! do this already. Don't start running out the gates screaming that Microsoft is the devil because they're doing it. If you're so concerned about what you're searching use an anonymous search engine (yes there are plenty) or if you're less paranoid just use lost in the crowd or something. B) WPA -- the only reason you need to worry about WPA validating itself is if you have an illegal copy of windows. Even if you -do- have an illegal copy of windows you have to be pretty s**tty to get hit with a WPA related issue, aka your grandmother shouldn't be using illegal software, she won't be able to handle the upkeep.C) Microsoft is at war with Apple - Yea, there's a little rivalry there, and rightfully so, but they're not eating each others heads. If anything Apple is way more of the public aggressor here with their "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC" ads. Don't forget who bought a whole lot of apple stock when they were about to go bankrupt.D)Microsoft is at war with Linux - In the server market, they're competitors, yes. Linux (unfortunately) still doesn't have a desktop market presence noticeable enough for them to care. Microsoft is more at war with Google and Yahoo! for web services than it is with anyone on the desktop platform.E)M$ -- Anyone who refers to Microsoft as M$ is immediately discounted in any logical or rational debate, sorry.
Someone posts a story about how MS is doing something that every fricking large corporation does in some way or another, and it gets dug to the front page...pathetic.
@dkoon : You replied to the wrong thread nub. Think before you click submit bud, and don't call people "fanboy" just because they try to make an argument for either side.
im not worried about microsoft doing this, the amount they're doing is nothing like the huge size and scope of what Google has done, continues to do, and never stop. Google is the most evil; they may say they protect users' data from outside use and sharing, and that's true to an extent, but they blantantly rifle through and scour deeply every word and phrase you search, every mail you write, every attachment you send, etc. They have the capabilities and free range to do all this, too. Where do you think 90 percent of their ideas come from...you and I and everyone else.
drakethegreatDec 27, 2006
Name something microsoft did to betray your trust...Also something they did to earn it was sue multiple spammers across the country and world. I think fighting for the little guy with our money is not bad. Also Gates is a democrat who has raised money for schools in my area and helped the poor. It seems the causes that Microsoft fights for are things digg users fight for... odd how that works.Oh but windows blows so they must have some hidden agenda cause I believe everything some guy said about them on the internet.
johannesrexxDec 27, 2006
Who gives a royal FSCK?This one has never had a hotmail account.This one has never used MSN search - it uses FIreFox and Google.This one uses Linux and Mac OS X 99.44% of the time.The curs at Microsoft have NOTHING on this one.What's your excuse?
pixelat3dDec 27, 2006
Lol, i love how totally off subject these comments can get.A)Personal Data -- Google and Yahoo! do this already. Don't start running out the gates screaming that Microsoft is the devil because they're doing it. If you're so concerned about what you're searching use an anonymous search engine (yes there are plenty) or if you're less paranoid just use lost in the crowd or something. B) WPA -- the only reason you need to worry about WPA validating itself is if you have an illegal copy of windows. Even if you -do- have an illegal copy of windows you have to be pretty s**tty to get hit with a WPA related issue, aka your grandmother shouldn't be using illegal software, she won't be able to handle the upkeep.C) Microsoft is at war with Apple - Yea, there's a little rivalry there, and rightfully so, but they're not eating each others heads. If anything Apple is way more of the public aggressor here with their "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC" ads. Don't forget who bought a whole lot of apple stock when they were about to go bankrupt.D)Microsoft is at war with Linux - In the server market, they're competitors, yes. Linux (unfortunately) still doesn't have a desktop market presence noticeable enough for them to care. Microsoft is more at war with Google and Yahoo! for web services than it is with anyone on the desktop platform.E)M$ -- Anyone who refers to Microsoft as M$ is immediately discounted in any logical or rational debate, sorry.
jumangiDec 27, 2006
Someone posts a story about how MS is doing something that every fricking large corporation does in some way or another, and it gets dug to the front page...pathetic.
glock22ownrDec 27, 2006
@dkoon : You replied to the wrong thread nub. Think before you click submit bud, and don't call people "fanboy" just because they try to make an argument for either side.
Closed AccountDec 27, 2006
im not worried about microsoft doing this, the amount they're doing is nothing like the huge size and scope of what Google has done, continues to do, and never stop. Google is the most evil; they may say they protect users' data from outside use and sharing, and that's true to an extent, but they blantantly rifle through and scour deeply every word and phrase you search, every mail you write, every attachment you send, etc. They have the capabilities and free range to do all this, too. Where do you think 90 percent of their ideas come from...you and I and everyone else.
Closed AccountDec 27, 2006
>>Personally, I would think more highly of Microsoft if they'd stop chasing Google and just make their own products better.<a class="user" href="http://wls.live.com">http://wls.live.com</a><a class="user" href="http://local.live.com/">http://local.live.com/</a><a class="user" href="http://labs.live.com/photosynth/">http://labs.live.com/photosynth/</a><a class="user" href="http://www.xbox.com/en-US/">http://www.xbox.com/en-US/</a>They can be my big brother any day.
echoicDec 28, 2006
Everyone on Digg is a mindless nutsack except for me.
topicnationMay 1, 2007
Unbelievable! Things never change.