for those saying MS and google are the same. While they are each evil in their own ways, google is the worst about privacy and personal data. their business is built soley around the trading of your info for free software. MS gets their revenue from actual people who have to fork over their money. In this regard its more important for them to keep your data private as they want you to purchase their software again. if google cant get your info, than you are useless to them so their is no need for them to worry about you finding out and not paying for their service. if they cant have your info, you may as well not be their consumer. now when come to monopoly laws, or anti trust laws amongt companies, or any other big business issue, i agree MS is just as evil as google. but for user privacy i would trust any company over google.