November for Microsoft has involved the acquisition of two companies, one focusing on health care IT and the other on automating processes within the data center. But those are relatively minor compared with Microsoft’s escalating battle with Google over the U.S. search market. Even as both sides continue to produce new features, including Twitter integration, a Mozilla executive suggests that Microsoft’s Bing search engine has a better privacy policy than Google, a statement that will doubtlessly spark massive amounts of debate online.
– Talk about the enemy of your enemy being your friend: in a Dec. 10 post on his blog, Asa
Dotzler, Mozilla’s director of community development, said, quot;Bing does
have a better privacy policy than Google, quot; and urged users to switch
Firefox to Microsoft’s search engine via an add-on.
That…