Google Says Windows is Torturing Users

[Squilliam]

Acevil said:

Squilliam said:

Snesboy said:

Squilliam said:

I think Microsoft is a better master than Google personally. You give up a lot more with 'free' than you do with a $50 OEM license.

Yeah, pretty much this. Win 7 has been amazing for me and I've never even used Chrome OS.

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. 

Well to be honest it's really hard to say what they do with your information in reality, AFAIK they aren't audited by third parties.

Im not sure what you mean by third big wheel? Are you talking Chrome + Windows + Apple? If thats the case it'll probably speed up innovation. You'll probably notice that operating systems have changed more in the past 5 years than they have in the preceding 15 if you compare Windows 98 to Windows XP and Windows Vista to Windows 8. Thats what the promise of competition brings even if there really isn't any more competition than before.