Actually...
..it's a great bit of "advertising" and there's more than an element of truth in the matter too...
How was it leaked from Microsoft? Must have been an IE Zero Day vulnerability
A leaked Microsoft ad, meant only for internal consumption, parodies a Google campaign as it portrays Google Chrome as a data-snaffling privacy-stealing parasite. Chrome is depicted as a surveillance technology to make money from private information for the benefit of Google. Redmond's slick propaganda video is a dig at …
...if you can stand the overwhelming hypocrisy of Microsoft doing the exact same fucking thing as Google.
Excuse me, I have to go uninstall the goddamned Bing Bar, Microsoft included it in the latest Windows updates. Again.
The only difference between Microsoft and Google as regards their commercialisation, monetisation and abuse of my privacy is that I get products and services I actually want from Google. I get ??? from Microsoft in exchange for same.
Fuck 'em both, I say. Firefox with full shields up. You'll have to pry that browser from my cold, dead...
Bing Bar in Windows Updates? Where do you get updates from? I would check it...
Anyway Chrome tries to install with Flash, Avast, and many other downloads. Just last month my sister asked my why her web browser changed (she uses Firefox) - she updated the AV and got Chrome - like a virus.
You perform windows updates? Your machine? Then don't run Windows - I have heard there are viable alternatives (I *have* heard it, I just haven't seen one).
There, solved, Firefox on Linux, perfect solution - I am amazed that all the moaners here even need to moan, they can just run Ubuntu (or some such) and Firefox (or some such). Add a lovely Jolla 'phone (or a Firefox 'phone).
Us weird windows users will run our unstable, useless OS that never works (I do hope I get to the end of this post before the inevitable BSOD - I have heard of it, I just haven't actually seen one, just kidding).
I will keep using Bing because it isn't Google and has nice pictures (which has to be more important than results right? - gee, I hope I can find that pesky address using Bing).
I couldn't care less if Google advertise to me of course, I prefer to see ads for Lumia 1020s on Amazon rather than My Little Pony or something.
I just prefer Bing and Windows to alternatives, all of which I have used (well, almost all).
Isn't that the slightest bit misleading when I'm quite sure that both Bing and the Bing Bar can be easily excluded from Windows Update by simply "hiding them"?
BTW, as I understand it, IE11 has far fewer security vulnerabilities than either Firefox or Chrome...Can someone PLEASE make a web browser that I have to pay for that guarantees user privacy and lack of datamining, and does not rely on either JAVA or Flash?!?
Now THERE is a business opportunity!!!!!!!!!!!
Actually you are wrong. I work in the film/video business in the Seattle market and have worked countless shoots over the years for internal Microsoft videos. Many of these have pretty high production values and they are definitely for internal use only. In fact I know of at least one recent instance where a vendor who had edited such a video was banned because he posted it on his Vimeo page.
Heck even the public presentations don't get released in high quality. Case in point was Bill Gates "Last Day" video that was presented at his final CES Keynote. Do a youtube search for Bill Gates Last Day and all you can find are shaky cam handheld video from cell phones at the event. Microsoft is notoriously tight fisted with that sort of material.
Like any of them are squeaky clean! I'm sure old BIlly Boy and dear Uncle Stevie Ballmer set up Bing out of the goodness of their hearts. Of course as we know Windows is completely philanthropic venture designed to make the world a better place! Heck even Shuttleworth is out of make cash out of the world's most fee O/S.
Now remind MS, weren't you lot one of the "dirty-dozen" who happily sent all our info over to those fun loving folks in the NSA?
Give it a rest MS, you're just as bad as the rest, you just don't make it as obvious!
Interesting declaration of war, this (and no, I don't believe this was "leaked", I call that purposely releasing).
The issues I see is that Google is not Netscape.
It is not depending on MS to play nice to survive, it has a massive pile of cash and it has no problems with playing dirty as it is AFAIK using the same strategies judging by behaviour and pending court cases.
What's more, it is already busy stealing MS' lunch money, and it is already embedded in a sphere where MS would like to play (which is IMHO what this is about).
I think I'm going to get some popcorn, this will make for great entertainment...
.....that it says except where it reads to make a profit "off of you" .
Forgive my pedantry but "from you" surely.
Bigger picture -- hope the current MS campaign scares enough punters that it eventually scares Google.
Meanwhile I'll use DuckDuckGo for my searches because it produces less paid-for junk.
TBH I couldn't care less about what Google do to target ads for me, I use adblock and don't look at ads anyway.
I never send an email with any content I wouldn't be happy to have someone like a mum etc reading it. Anything else goes in the snailmail post.
I use Google because they give me what I want and have changed my laptop to a chromebook with GSM in it for on the go, I love the fact that my bookmarks etc etc are synched and that my old email from Blueyonder can still be read via gmail even though I'm no longer a Virgin customer.
MS are becoming only relevent at work as far as I am concerned as others push them out of all the growing markets for non enterprise use.
As for people moaning bout Google and praising Firefox, don't forget who is paying for it, yeh Google is.....
I'm pretty sure the reason it is 'leaked internal' is that it is pretty close to slander and an official release would have a lawsuit thrown at it before you could say 'Googleplex'
Anyway I am shocked that Google has been making money from me for years. I was sure that they were a charity and all this free stuff was just large scale philanthropy.
However I know one Seattle based company that has been gouging me for years. The main difference being that at least I get something useful from Google.
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Attack ads worked really well for Apple, and Apple's attack ads were based on squareness and snobbishness.
This is quite a good ad based on facts, Google does spy on us in an outrageous manner.
Of course Google does have permission in the TOS, but people don't read that.
And, unlike the US government, Google doesn't kill people or destroy their careers based on what it finds by spying. Google is merely serving us advertising we are likely to be interested in.