Microsoft has launched an unsubtle campaign against Google and some of its most popular services. Those from Redmond try to show the public that, on the one hand, Outlook it's less invasive than it is gmail and on the other, that the Mountain View search engine deceives its users by positioning the products of the highest paying advertisers before. Microsoft seems to have chosen Google as a target for your harshest criticisms. We show it to you.
Microsoft he does not fool around and when it comes to criticizing, he does it savagely. If those of Redmond were once the most dominant company in the PC sector, the new generation of mobile devices seems to have displaced them to a rather secondary place while Android it has become the new mass operating system.
The company Steve Ballmer runs is not taking that position and is getting us used to its frontal attacks on adversaries. Previously these were directed against malware from the platform Google, then Microsoft gave some mobile phones to those users who will tell in a tweet the ugliest story they would have had, in that sense, with a device Android.
Now the wrath of Microsoft They have focused on two rival services: email and the search engine. The videos of the campaign show the typical situation in which a man does not know that he is being "spied" by gmail, his partner tells him and he falls out of the chair in fright, who hasn't happened to it? Either way, Microsoft redounds on aspects in which they they are not without doubt either. Free software users have always complained that those who hid their code could leave back doors open and it is a criticism with which the operating system Windows has had to deal with it for a long time. We don't even talk about Trojans and other viruses.
The second topic of attention of this campaign called “Scroogled”Refers to the fact that, according to Microsoft, those advertisers who pay the most money to Google obtain privileged positions in your search engine, while Bing it is completely neutral.
At the height of the bizarre, Microsoft He has launched a collection of signatures to ask Google to stop violating the privacy of users to earn money. This petition has managed to collect 4.400 signatures so far, but it aims to reach 25.000 signatures, which is quite a ridiculous figure considering the millions of users of gmail there may be in the world.
Source: TechCrunch.