There’s a lot to bash about Microsoft, no doubt. The sleeping giant seems to be confused as to where all these new competitors came from. Google’s just a dozen years old and Apple’s resurgence has taken tablets and smart phones to a new level. Microsoft seems to be grasping at straws with its anti-Google campaign (Scroogled), even going so far as to hire Pawn Stars stars to appear in a TV commercial bashing Chromebooks – even though the commercial contains a lot of fiction, not facts.<\/p>\n
Maybe Microsoft is grasping at straws trying to draw customers back in the Windows fold with its apparent new, hard-line stance against government snooping — Hey! Hey! What do you say? Gotta love the NSA!. Microsoft promises users of its products and services will be protected from government snooping. This comes on the heels of some reports than Microsoft has a backdoor built-in to Windows — I’m just sayin’. If that is true, and we’re not saying it is, then anything else they do to stop the snooping is just window dressing.<\/p>\n
Here read for yourself:<\/p>\n
(CNN) — Still concerned about some faceless government bureaucrat peeking at your e-mails and other online communications? Well, you’ve got a new champion: Microsoft.<\/p>\n
The computing giant has announced a set of new privacy features, in a post that specifically calls out “government snooping” as the reason.<\/p>\n
Responding to news reports that the National Security Agency may be monitoring more online activity than was previously believed, Microsoft attorney and executive vice president Brad Smith wrote that the company is rolling out three new features:
\n— Expanded encryption across Microsoft services.
\n— Reinforced legal protections for customer data.
\n— Enhanced transparency designed to show customers that Microsoft products don’t have “back doors” that make government surveillance easier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nOK. Put on your best anti-snooping goggles and head on over to this page to read the rest of this CNN article<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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