Microsoft video attacks Gmail

I was amused by Google's video, but not so much by Microsoft's. Their attempts at smeering someone or even at promoting themselves tend to fall embarrasingly flat for me. And as for whom I would declare the winner, well I hate to break it to them but I don't willingly use either of them. I don't use hotmail, sure as heck don't use the woefuly out of date outlook express, and I only have a gmail account because I'm made to in order to pay for Android aps. My Comcast and yahoo mail accounts suit me just fine.

*snore*

Microsoft one was better imo.

Microsoft's video probably would have been funny if not for four big issues:
1.) Most websites with input will scan what you input (or even what pages on the site you have visited) in order to place ads and "associated products" links. Go on live.com and search for something...the banner ad will be related to the search most of the time.
2.) Gmail has great spam blockers, so you don't get as many ads from email.
3.) I have adblock plus, so I have never seen an ad on Gmail. I really don't care if they are trying to sell me something because I don't see it. This, combined with adblock plus, means I almost never get any ads at all.
4.) They took a lot of harmless things and put them in unreal situations for the video...a banner ad is just a bit of graphics on the screen. It is not an annoying guy who bursts into your office and announces that you have burning butt rash in front of all your coworkers.

Because of those issues, it was just annoying and dumb. I think they will use Jim Carey for the feature film.

This would seem to claim the M$ doesn't scan your mail and I am fairly certain that is a lie. You can't send zip files zipped by proprietary app that encrypts the data in a way they can't see what you are sending. I see nothing wrong with that otherwise terrorist could just use the email to transfer stuff. gmail is up front with their reading of your email, M$ isn't.

The lying weasels!

Originally posted by Mez:

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This would seem to claim the M$ doesn't scan your mail and I am fairly certain that is a lie. You can't send zip files zipped by proprietary app that encrypts the data in a way they can't see what you are sending. I see nothing wrong with that otherwise terrorist could just use the email to transfer stuff. gmail is up front with their reading of your email, M$ isn't.

The lying weasels!

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Originally posted by KillerBug:

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Originally posted by Mez:

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This would seem to claim the M$ doesn't scan your mail and I am fairly certain that is a lie. You can't send zip files zipped by proprietary app that encrypts the data in a way they can't see what you are sending. I see nothing wrong with that otherwise terrorist could just use the email to transfer stuff. gmail is up front with their reading of your email, M$ isn't.

The lying weasels!

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Gmail lets you send encrypted files...I send them all the time and the file size limit is several times higher than most of the inboxes that I send to. They do block certain file extensions like EXE for security reasons...but that is easily bypassed by using encrypted archives.

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This has nothing to do with more and more business turning to googles apps for business platform instead of using exchange with requires a handful of bibles or/and microsoft training courses to use and administrate properly.. lol