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Microsoft may be many things, but they have always respected privacy.
That's why Microsoft got a lot of criticism because of the phoning home feature of WGA right? Or that's why MS gives your info to the government even without your consent. Or that's why Microsoft collected PC and phones locations in ther Web map services...
You should inform yourself a little more, all that glitters is not gold
I live in Seattle and many tech people I've talked agree that MS' biggest problem is the person at the top - Steve Ballmer. He has no vision whatsoever and at best is a chief operating officer.
Not only Ballmer, but also the bureaucracy at Microsoft is one of the biggest problems for them. That's documented on the Mini Microsoft blog
If you are going to rule your life by speculations, believe me, you are screwed.
Just wait and see. If Google don't release the source code, we should stop supporting them
If this David Gerard is the poster, we are all fucked:S (by seeing his profile, he is from the UK too)
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/davegerard
He has a relationship with Microsoft or its products, so spreading anti-Google articles makes sense...