Gmail Man! (Microsoft's anti-Google video promoting Office 365)

Rishabh SinglaCited 4× on HN, 2014–2020

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A 'leaked' Microsoft video shown at its 2011 MGX conference that mocks Google's Gmail and Apps to promote Office 365. It attacks Google over email scanning and privacy.

HN mostly cites it ironically, as evidence of Microsoft's earlier privacy marketing against Google that sits awkwardly with its later telemetry.

4 comments from Hacker News

@Buge2020-01 · in “How to stay private when using Android”

See news articles about it from the time, and a petition telling Google to stop: link link And a Microsoft ad criticizing Google for it: ▶ this video

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@starsinspace2019-07 · in “Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining”

Microsoft is really shooting themselves in the foot with their terrible approach to privacy ever since Win10. Given that they earn money by selling actual products, they could stand right next to Apple as a defender of privacy if they wanted to (unlike Google, which has a business model which depends on data collection)... but they choose not to. It's not so long ago, in 2011, they had this video, targeting Google's privacy problems: ▶ this video Now they're no better than Google. What happened?

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@rasz2018-05 · in “How much does Apple know about me? The answer surprised me”

Microsoft was there in ~2011-2014. Check these out ▶ this video link From Scroogled to "telemetry" collecting user keyboard input in 4 years.

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@Kerrick2014-03 · in “Microsoft defends its right to read your email”

It's terribly ironic, considering the video they "leaked" a couple years ago lambasting Gmail for reading your email. ▶ this video

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