Microsoft hasn't been in the news as much, at least not regarding privacy matters. They're often seen by the public as the solid company behind trusted products like Office and Windows.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12305598
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9976298
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10053352
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10144733
...and many more.
Now look at mainstream media. CNN alone has 230K results for google privacy [0]. How many results for microsoft privacy? 16k [1]
[0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acnn.com%20google%20pr...
[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acnn.com+microsoft+pri...
However clean, possibly less bubbled browser, gets number over twice larger on the second link.
What? Every non-tech person I see is happily running Google Chrome and has never even considered Firefox. Hell, I think most still think Google is one of the "good guys".
Non-tech people still trust Google much more than Microsoft. Microsoft is bad, but they haven't made your data their core business just yet.
That's pretty interesting claim, what makes you think so?
> Maintaining browsers has become a significant undertaking, so complex that only well-funded corporate interests can afford to keep one patched and up-to-date with the latest web standards. It surpassed operating system complexity. It surpassed pretty much everything else too. So we can forget about it ever being truly "free" (and free from ads) unless we simplify the web somehow. I also don't think we're going to go back in time and start cutting features out of browsers. So that isn't going to happen
Google develops Chromium and Google gets constantly bashed for selling ads. MS modifies Chromium and adds their own branding and sell ads. MS is just trying to cover their development cost.
