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>>i13e+(OP)
Sorry to break it to you folks but if you hated your data being with Google, you are in for a surprise on how atrociously bad Microsoft is at privacy and security. Multiple close friends who have worked at Microsoft tell me that search history data - who is searching what, is basically sitting in systems with ACLs so bad that 20-30K employees have access through transitive membership of groups. To access a customer's data you just need to know token which is logged everywhere and is apparently very easy to generate. I have heard horror stories from them about privacy incidents which never went public.

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.

>>Bhilai+8m
Both are evil but I agree that Google is less evil than Microsoft.

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

>>victor+X31
> Both are evil but I agree that Google is less evil than Microsoft.

Microsoft is evil v1. Google and everyone post 2000 is evil v2.

They are just as evil as Microsoft but they've learned that amongst other things, you need to a) seem nicer and b) lobby politicians.

I'd argue that made them more evil.

Though it has to be said that Microsoft has learned, too, so at this point they're pretty much the same thing.