Your missing the point and I was talking in generalities. But no matter. Microsoft does NOT bind IP address to email address, does NOT scan emails for advertising keywords. Microsoft does not track personally identifiable information.


>Well they can't, as I never had a computer where email would go through anything Microsoft :). But see message #1570280 and that subthread in general - Microsoft simply uses other sources of information. They don't sell ad space as much, but they sell software. They probably want to know what's installed base of whatever is out there, so they know which software company to buy next.
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>Again, Google being worse than Microsoft doesn't mean Microsoft is that much better.