Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will reach $1T market cap

Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by singhrac on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:31AM (#16685833)

Is there any chance Microsoft will take a strong stance on privacy like Apple? They seem to have strong business models besides ads so they can avoid becoming a data grubbing pile of crap.

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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by mel919 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @05:22AM (#16686667)

Looking at the deeds, not the words, I think Windows 10 shows quite well Microsoft is not that much into a strong privacy stance.

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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by tallanvor on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:21AM (#16686089)

They sued the government to keep from handing over customer data stored overseas. Isn't that a pretty strong stance on privacy?

They could certainly strengthen their stance in some areas, though, such as by including Bitlocker in all versions of Windows and using strong E2E encryption in Skypep. But I'm not sure that the majority of people would use Bitlocker anyway.

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Re:Microsoft surges 8% after Morgan Stanley says it will rea... by casefields on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:27AM (#16686142)

That's not even close to the same. Windows 10 is the spying king: http://bgr.com/2016/02/10/windows-10-spying-investigation/

Did you forget about Prism? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-...

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