Here's Why Microsoft Is Worried About Google Chromebooks

[keith smith]

I have no problem with Google being a capitalist company.  I support a free market system that has very few restrictions.

What
 concerns me is that man has figured out how to profile other men by 
their actions.  For instance Target says they can tell when a woman is 
pregnant before she announces it to the world.  They make this 
assumption by the buying pattern of the woman.  If Target can make an 
accurate assumption with limited information, what can Google come to 
know about us?

If this information was 
only used for marketing, I would be OK with it. However the bigger 
picture is that Google is probably working with the Government and 
providing what should be private information.

Some people say "So What, What Do I Have to Hide?".  That may be true
 until they become a false positive and all hell breaks loose.   

Case
 in point.  There is a rumor that a couple were both doing searches at 
the same time.  One was looking for backpacks.  The other was looking 
for pressure cookers.  Rumor has it that in short order their house was 
raided by a swat team.

Not so funny when you look at it through the eyes of a false positive.

And
 as far as giving permission, yes we do, however only in a limited way. 
 It is not like we can just decide to go off the grid.  If we want to 
maintain a certain lifestyle we must use modern technology.

For
 example.  Recently the group I work with took on a Facebook project.  
None of use had Facebook accounts.  All three of us did not trust 
Facebook and had deep privacy concerts when it came to Facebook.  To 
complete the project all three of us needed Facebook accounts.  Not 
something we really
 wanted to do, however our livelihood had taken use to a point where we 
had to embrace technology we probably would have never used.  

So yes we do give permission and yes in some cases we do so because we have no alternative.

My
 concern with Google is they will become so big and so powerful, which 
they may already be, that they would easily be able to turn over our 
docs that we put up onto the Google cloud and do so with impunity. 

I
 like the concept of the Chromebook.  Very convenient.  You can go 
anywhere and have access to your docs.  You can even switch computers 
and  with very little configuration you are off and running again.  You 
can share docs and life is just so much better, until someone becomes a 
false positive.    


 
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Keith Smith



On Monday, December 30, 2013 5:45 PM, Nathan England <plug-discuss at nmecs.com> wrote:
 

I have a really hard time with people who get upset that Google is doing evil 
things.

1) They are a marketing company
2) We gave them permission

People get upset that Google is watching all that they do on their Android 
phones... then use a Windows phone! Or go buy a cheap pre-paid flip phone. You 
gave Google permission to track you and watch what you do.

I think it's funny. I'm now saying this is Keith's deal, I'm just ranting on a 
point. Microsoft sells an operating system that I should be able to do what I 
want with and feel safe, however, M$ is doing evil things with it. An NSA 
back-door? I didn't give them permission for that!

Google watches what I do because they ultimately want to make my life better. 
If they can find things I'm interested in and market them to me, so that I 
purchase them, they have won because they made money, but I also won, because 
I got something I wanted. (yeah yeah, evil capitalist agenda was to sell me 
something I didn't know I needed...blah)

Google is there to make money by watching what I do and sell me relevant 
things. Microsoft is just evil. Trying to tell me with one hand that I am safe 
from this that and the other, while tracking what I do and giving it to big 
brother. Complete liars.

Linus had the right idea, when asked if the NSA approached him about Linux he 
nodded yes and said "no". !!!




On Sunday, December 29, 2013 01:40:39 PM keith smith wrote:
> Thought this list might enjoy this article.  One point that came to mind is
> Google is very big and tracks our activities.  M$ is doing evil also,
> however we do not want Google to become the only player do we??
> 
> http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2013/12/29/heres-why-microsoft-is
> -worried-about-google-chromebooks/?partner=yahootix
> 
> 
> ------------------------
> Keith Smith
-- 
Regards,

Nathan England

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