[Info-vax] Microsoft buys LinkedIn, Was: Re: VMS and Sweden

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-06-19, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2016-06-14, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>
>> Of course, given recent developments, in the future Clippy's likely to
>> pop up after the search and ask "Can I interest you in Windows 10
>> instead ?". :-)
>
><http://www.donthitsave.com/comic/2016/06/14/microsoft-linkedin>
>

I see I'm not the only one to think this. :-)

><http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/opinion/why-linkedin-will-make-you-hate-microsoft-word.html>
>

For that to work, surely Microsoft would have to send context from
your documents, which would include details of what your current
project is, to LinkedIn.

If so, I wonder how many companies would be happy for their privacy
to be compromised in that way ?

Simon.

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