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Microsoft's Increasing InvasivenessPreview:
Microsoft's horrible new Outlook continues their movement toward being a marketing company, selling your personal information. It achieves new levels of invasiveness, previously unimagined. The New Invasive OutlookMicrosoft has been upgrading users to the new Outlook, which will be free on all new Windows 11 computers. Here's what they say at Microsoft.com.
However, if we were in the European Union, where companies must disclose how they share your data, we'd see more. We'd be informed that Microsoft will collect data on you and share it with 813 "partner" companies (as of May 2024). Some privileges these 813 companies would have included:
Data Storage, wrong placeOne of the things which has consistently bothered me about Microsoft and where I fundamentally disagree with their approach is data storage. We encounter this consistently.
This basic division is that I believe in local data and Microsoft's wants to keep everything on their systems. This division is displayed with the updated Outlook as well. If you don't use a Microsoft Exchange Server, but instead Gmail, or Comcast, or any other provider for your email, Microsoft will still keep your login name and password on their servers. They will log you in. They will control your credentials. I believe the login credentials should be stored locally on your computer, the way Thunderbird or Essential Pim do it. It should be an agreement between you, your local email program and your chosen provider, not Microsoft. What do I do?Many companies chose Microsoft and there is nothing you can do. You must use Office 365 to fit in. However, if you have a choice, there are many good alternatives.
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Date: August 2024
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