Squilliam said:
Well Microsoft just wants your money. Google wants to own your online identity and sell it to various companies. The more information you give them the more you're worth to the people they sell it to essentially. Since you're a paying customer Microsoft has an incentive to protect your privacy whereas with Google other third parties are the customers so they don't have the same incentive to serve your best interests. Im not saying that Microsoft is good, but I think in many cases compared to Google it is the lesser of two evils and we need both in order to prevent the excesses of the other. |
If it, as long as you are listed as a number, you don't really care about online identity. I'm not saying that I will make the jump to google, because I find myself really happy with Window 7. However, I am interested to see what the potiential third big wheel will bring, because I really dislike the second.
