From what I know about Google, they are serious about least privilege type of stuff internally and employees dont get arbitrary unbound access to systems or data.
Just like the OP I have first hand info on how atrocious Microsoft’s internal privacy controls are.
The later versions of Windows are just ad space for Microsoft to advertise.
Azure is the worst of the 3 cloud providers. Horrible developer experience and documentation and reliability.
That said, I would still take Satya’s Microsoft over Balmers any day
Lets not use emotionally driven, ambiguous terms like 'evil' to describe these kinds of things. Google is not, for instance, conspiring to commit genocides, nor is Microsoft planning a coup in an Eastern European nation with the goal of colonizing them to use as indentured technical support.
What do you want a corporation/company/business (of any size) to be driven by?
- Ethical Metrics (could be solved by allowing corporations, directors, boards to face similar punishments to humans committing crime).
– Something that measured employee treatment.
Profit is such a shitty motive... it's effective, but still shitty.