Re: Man, that's hilarious!
Microsoft pretending that it values user privacy is hilarious.
But it does now. If you think about it for a few minutes you'll figure out why.
Facebook gets practically all of it's revenue from advertising, and mining information from the user.
Google gets practically all of it's revenue from advertising, and mining information from the user.
Microsoft gets practically all of it's revenue from product licensing. They failed in search, they failed with mobile phones, and they failed in basically everything but their existing products.
Hence, Microsoft has nothing whatsoever to lose from implementing really stringent privacy laws such as GDPR, but it would disproportionately hurt their competitors. Hence, Microsoft now cares really deeply about your privacy. But probably not quite so much that they'll stop tracking which websites you visit so they can improve Bing's search, or stop tracking everything that you do on your computer until a law stopping them for doing it comes in.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
