Outlook.com only scans the contents of your email to help protect you and display, categorize, and sort your mail appropriately. Just like the postal service sorts and scans mail and packages for dangerous explosives and biohazards, Outlook.com scans your mail to help prevent spam, gray mail, phishing scams, viruses, malware, and other dangers and annoyances. Microsoft and its email services, including Outlook.com, Hotmail, and Office 365, do not use the content of customers’ private emails, communications, or documents to target advertising.
; Acer was completely free to release its phone with the forked OS, albeit at the cost of losing valuable third-party deals via its partnership with Google. This is how capitalism works anywhere in the world -- it has no bearing on the "openness" of the Android OS.
Oh, so you mean just like the OEMs were free to bundle Netscape or dual boot BeOS, except that their Windows license cost went up a bit? Right?
Their PR is amazing though, no one in this article even remembers the above and the Google shills are in full force shielding Google and blaming "evil" China.
Microsoft is very grateful that you paraphrased what they actually said. You see, they actually do scan Subject headers, but not the body itself. But they don't mention that in their campaign and they're very happy that you assumed that they weren't scanning your email at all. But they are.
Oh please, read your own links. Right there it says:
Update: According to The Verge, Microsoft denies that it scans email subject lines in order to deliver ads.
+4 informative? Stop the stupid FUD It's 3%. Anti-Microsoft zealots on Slashdot can't even do basic math and still get modded up because it's anti-Microsoft. Idiotic really.
I'm all for informing people on what information they give to companies, and how those companies will use it. But at least don't be hypocritical about it. Also, a huge part of the world doesn't care, as is obvious by their Facebook and Twitter activity.
They're not doing the same. Half the +5 posts on this story are invoking the Fallacy of Grey to defend Google's anti-privacy record.
AFAIK Bing / MS Mail (whatever its called now) has historically scanned email in the same way as google
How can Bing scan personal email? Do you have any references? Or at least about "MS mail" scanning emails?
Also, MS says Outlook.com does not scan emails, so stop spreading stupid anti-Microsoft FUD. It makes you and the moderators who modded it up +5 interested look like idiots.
Slashdot Mirror
All or nearly all of your comments are pro-Microsoft and anti-Microsoft competitors.
I like to play the Devil's advocate on Slashdot.
Mod me down and crucify and lynch me for thinking against the grain and not subscribing to the groupthink, I don't care.
Interesting Stackoverflow runs on the .NET platform and is very fast despite the extreme load.
So much for Slashdot's wisdom that .NET sucks. Meanwhile Reddit on PHP or Python is superslow and is overloaded.
It's good to be doubtful. But simply making up shit and then saying it's the truth like half the +5 posts on this story is what's wrong with Slashdot.
Here is Microsoft's statement:
Outlook.com only scans the contents of your email to help protect you and display, categorize, and sort your mail appropriately. Just like the postal service sorts and scans mail and packages for dangerous explosives and biohazards, Outlook.com scans your mail to help prevent spam, gray mail, phishing scams, viruses, malware, and other dangers and annoyances. Microsoft and its email services, including Outlook.com, Hotmail, and Office 365, do not use the content of customers’ private emails, communications, or documents to target advertising.
http://www.scroogled.com/OurPosition
Please stop spreading misleading FUD for karma. Your post getting to +4 informative is what's wrong with Slashdot.
; Acer was completely free to release its phone with the forked OS, albeit at the cost of losing valuable third-party deals via its partnership with Google. This is how capitalism works anywhere in the world -- it has no bearing on the "openness" of the Android OS.
Oh, so you mean just like the OEMs were free to bundle Netscape or dual boot BeOS, except that their Windows license cost went up a bit? Right?
Haha, the same alliance with secret agreements that banned Acer from making Aliyun phones?
http://www.zdnet.com/cn/report-google-stops-acer-from-launching-aliyun-phone-in-china-7000004246/
http://marketingland.com/google-acer-android-aliyun-21631
How "Open" is the Open Handset Alliance? Not so much. Great branding and PR by Google though.
But if you actually try to make use of that source code, Google puts a spanner in the works.
http://www.zdnet.com/cn/report-google-stops-acer-from-launching-aliyun-phone-in-china-7000004246/
Also, forking the SDK is now banned. How is Android open again?
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/04/1339206/the-android-sdk-is-no-longer-free-software
Their PR is amazing though, no one in this article even remembers the above and the Google shills are in full force shielding Google and blaming "evil" China.
From http://www.infoworld.com/t/internet-privacy/microsoft-attacking-gmail-tactics-it-uses-itself-212455
Update: According to The Verge, Microsoft denies that it scans email subject lines in order to deliver ads.
Android is only "open" in name. Google will put the ban hammer on you if you fork it, just like Microsoft did to squelch BeOS.
http://www.zdnet.com/cn/report-google-stops-acer-from-launching-aliyun-phone-in-china-7000004246/
http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-prevents-Acer-from-distributing-phones-with-Aliyun-OS-1709555.html
Also, forking the SDK is now banned. How is Android open again?
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/01/04/1339206/the-android-sdk-is-no-longer-free-software
Well, here's one, for real. Actually two.
http://www.zdnet.com/google-app-engine-has-a-friday-fail-7000006451/
http://techcrunch.com/2008/06/17/google-app-engine-goes-down-and-stays-down/
Microsoft is very grateful that you paraphrased what they actually said. You see, they actually do scan Subject headers, but not the body itself. But they don't mention that in their campaign and they're very happy that you assumed that they weren't scanning your email at all. But they are.
Oh please, read your own links. Right there it says:
Update: According to The Verge, Microsoft denies that it scans email subject lines in order to deliver ads.
And what's your point? Google has it's share of dumb mistakes. Like this one. http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/17/long-november-google-left-december-out-of-its-date-picker-in-android-jelly-bean-os-4-2/
+4 informative? Stop the stupid FUD It's 3%. Anti-Microsoft zealots on Slashdot can't even do basic math and still get modded up because it's anti-Microsoft. Idiotic really.
Windows 8 sold more than 60 million a while ago, you dumbass karmawhore.
And Microsoft isn't doing the same?
I'm all for informing people on what information they give to companies, and how those companies will use it. But at least don't be hypocritical about it.
Also, a huge part of the world doesn't care, as is obvious by their Facebook and Twitter activity.
They're not doing the same. Half the +5 posts on this story are invoking the Fallacy of Grey to defend Google's anti-privacy record.
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3515705&cid=43077953
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy
>What Microsoft isn't telling anyone is that they are doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING (well, may not exactly, but darn near close to it)
MS says Outlook.com doesn't scan your personal emails to target ads. How is that exactly the same thing?
AFAIK Bing / MS Mail (whatever its called now) has historically scanned email in the same way as google
How can Bing scan personal email? Do you have any references? Or at least about "MS mail" scanning emails?
Also, MS says Outlook.com does not scan emails, so stop spreading stupid anti-Microsoft FUD. It makes you and the moderators who modded it up +5 interested look like idiots.
Sorry but that's just confirmation bias.
Here's one among many Google fails, Google's calendar missed having the December of 2012.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/19/tech/mobile/google-december-mistake
Microsoft doesn't do personalized ads based on email contents.
http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-compares-outlookcom-to-gmail-and-yahoo-mail-releases-new-video
Thanks for engaging in the Fallacy of Grey to deflect criticism of your favorite company, Mr. Google Shilll.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Continuum_fallacy
Hahahah, so you're just regurgitating the FUD by professional Microsoft haters. Good to know.
Any references or proof, or just hearsay and handwaving with urban legends?
>Its kind of ironic that you would try to do the same in they year Android is set to overtake window as the primary OS
So it's time to lift the monopoly restrictions on Microsoft, don't you think? Why is a company that is not even the primary OS being forced to show a browser dialog in EU while Google is free to abuse Android and the OEMs as it wishes? http://www.zdnet.com/cn/report-google-stops-acer-from-launching-aliyun-phone-in-china-7000004246/
My company has its own intranet, with online document storage and email that works fine with any web browser.
Local storage on laptops etc is already being deprecated.
That's a long winded way to say you work at Google.
Amazon bestsellers don't mean very much in terms to total units.
The Nokia Lumia has been on top of bestseller phones for long periods of time.
http://wmpoweruser.com/nokia-lumia-920-swarms-amazons-best-seller-charts/
http://wmpoweruser.com/nokia-lumia-920-still-got-ittopping-att-best-sellers-on-amazon/
http://wmpoweruser.com/now-even-amazon-is-complaining-of-tremendous-demand-for-the-nokia-lumia-920/
Is that the same model that sold only 5000 in a few months, worse than the Kin?
http://www.zdnet.com/chromebook-looks-like-another-googleflop-4010024772/