• londos@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    The logic I follow is that Microsoft is slightly safer than Google, if only because they’re probably less capable of doing anything with the data they scrape. Security by incompetence.

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      15 hours ago

      Incompetance doesn’t build and maintain the world’s leading Operating System… But I believe it has more to do with the privacy scare with Windows 10’s launch, during the Alexa/Cortana/Siri always-on-mic stuff.

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        14 hours ago

        Maybe incompetence was too strong a word, but interacting with many MS services feels so disjoint and siloed, I just don’t see them building and leveraging user profiles as extensively as Google does.

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          14 hours ago

          Now that is a true statement. Google loves their “everything in one bucket” style of computing. MS is service-based. They have a framework (rn that’s Azure, but Windows is also a framework) and bells and whistles get added as needed.