54K views · Jul 31, 2011 · 2:42 · 0 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2014–2020
A 'leaked' Microsoft video shown at its 2011 MGX conference that mocks Google's Gmail and Apps to promote Office 365. It attacks Google over email scanning and privacy.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN mostly cites it ironically, as evidence of Microsoft's earlier privacy marketing against Google that sits awkwardly with its later telemetry.
“And a Microsoft ad criticizing Google for it”
Microsoft ad criticizing Google's email scanning, cited as evidence
See news articles about it from the time, and a petition telling Google to stop: link link And a Microsoft ad criticizing Google for it: this video
“It's terribly ironic”
It's terribly ironic, considering the video they "leaked" a couple years ago lambasting Gmail for reading your email. this video
“From Scroogled to "telemetry" collecting user keyboard input in 4 years.”
Microsoft was there in ~2011-2014. Check these out this video link From Scroogled to "telemetry" collecting user keyboard input in 4 years.
“they had this video, targeting Google's privacy problems”
Microsoft is really shooting themselves in the foot with their terrible approach to privacy ever since Win10. Given that they earn money by selling actual products, they could stand right next to Apple as a defender of privacy if they wanted to (unlike Google, which has a business model which depends on data collection)... but they choose not to. It's not so long ago, in 2011, they had this video, targeting Google's privacy problems: this video Now they're no better than Google. What happened?
