Microsoft created a mildly amusing parody video making fun of the Google Gmail system of looking at the content of your email and producing targeted ads based on the content. While the video is kind ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In their war over American consumers, the tech giants have chosen privacy as an appealing battleground. Earlier this year, Facebook started a whisper campaign about Google's "Circles," alleging ...

Microsoft launched its new online Office 365 service last month aimed at professionals and business and of course as a competitor to Google’s online Gmail and documents service. Well this week ...

A tug of war has been going on for a week now between Microsoft and Google about the new privacy policy of Google. The new mandatory privacy policy will merge all policies that currently exist across ...

Does Google read Gmail users' mail? Microsoft certainly thinks so, as is well illustrated by a video spoof reportedly produced for internal consumption only. In the video, "Gmail Man" gleefully goes ...

It’s Day No. 2 in Microsoft’s three-day bid to court Google users, and Google isn’t letting Microsoft’s claims go unanswered. Google yesterday afternoon issued a detailed rebuttal to Microsoft’s ...

(CBS) - He may be a creep, but at least he's totally shameless about it! This internal Microsoft video (Commercial Alert!) tells the story of the Gmail Man, that jolly mail carrier who likes nothing ...

Microsoft managed to keep its 12,000 or so attendees of its annual Microsoft Global Exchange sales conference from tweeting and blogging company secrets last week. But at least one enterprising ...