Google Says Windows is Torturing Users

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Squilliam said:

Darth Tigris 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.

The scary part is that your words are still playing it soft.  Read the following initially wonderful article, everyone, to see where it leads and then tell us what it honestly sounds like:  

 

http://ca.gizmodo.com/5801247/google-could-very-well-develop-universal-translation

 

Yep... pretty much this.

The funny thing is everyone says Google is free but noone tells you what you give up in order to access their services. People should ask themselves 'what does the other party get out of this arrangement?'. With Microsoft it's pretty clear, you give them money. With Google that answer is probably best described as 'it depends' and it isn't like you can avoid Google like you can with Microsoft.

I won't ever give all my data to Google, but this doesn't mean that I'll put the access to them in MS' hands using  its proprietary formats and protocols or proprietary non-standard modifications of standard ones ever again. Using a cloud, not necessarily managed either by Google or MS, to be able to access a selection of my data from everywhere I am sounds interesting, though.

Anyway, worrying signals about Google must never make us forget that MS would still like to close us in its proprietary world if only it could.