Microsoft: don't trust Google - plugs Bing

Microsoft started a campaign against Google and wonders aloud if the company behind worlds most popular search engine can be trusted as they pass information from apps to developers. To underline this, Microsoft has published two videos.

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In February Microsoft started a campaign called Scroogled. In this campaign the company warns uses for online and offline dangers of Google services. After GMail and Google Shopping, the company is now targeting Google's Appstore.

In the two videos, Microsoft explains that Google passes information to app developers without a clear explanation.  App developers receive the name and e-mail address of an user that purchases their apps and also the neighborhood of the user. This only happens when an user makes an purchase and does not happen when you just install an app.

"If you can't trust their app store maybe you better don't trust them for anything", Microsoft says in the video. "Most app markers are trustworthy, however in the wrong hands, who knows what they do with that info", they added.

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The company suggests to move over to Windows Phone that does not share personal information with app developers. The new attack comes a day after Microsoft and 16 other companies filed an official complaint to the European Commission against Google for abusing their power with Android. The complainers state that Google favors its own apps in its mobile operating system and that there's unfair competition with other mobile operating systems.

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