{"id":740986,"date":"2013-03-07T23:59:23","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T04:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=362605"},"modified":"2013-03-07T23:59:23","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T04:59:23","slug":"microsoft-starts-scroogled-mark-ii-pushes-legislation-to-keep-google-apps-out-of-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740986","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft starts \u2018Scroogled, Mark II,\u2019 pushes legislation to keep Google Apps out of schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/microsoft-anti-google-legislation-362605\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/gmail_man.jpg?w=560&#038;h=315&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=560%2C315\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Microsoft Anti-Google\" title=\"Microsoft Gmail Man Ad\" \/><\/a><\/center>Microsoft (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>), which is seemingly trying to remake itself from a software company into <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/15\/microsoft-anti-gmail-campaign-failure-328299\/\">a non-profit privacy advocate<\/a> on par with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/04\/microsoft-anti-google-ad-campaign-ends-359392\/\">shifted the focus<\/a> of its anti-<a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=goog\">GOOG<\/a>) campaign to the realm of lobbying. <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324539404578340681695885730.html\"><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> reports<\/a> that Microsoft is pushing a bill in the Massachusetts state legislature that\u00a0\"would prohibit companies that provide schools with 'a cloud-computing' service... from using the information gleaned from schoolchildren for advertising or other commercial purposes.\" While this sounds innocuous enough, the <em>Journal<\/em> says that it's being crafted \"to take aim at Google's growing business of providing basic software like email and word processing over the Internet, which, in turn, is a growing threat to Microsoft's cash-cow suite of Office tools.\"<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/microsoft-anti-google-legislation-362605\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/jYa9CoaRVxY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft (MSFT), which is seemingly trying to remake itself from a software company into a non-profit privacy advocate on par with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has shifted the focus of its anti-Google (GOOG) campaign to the realm of lobbying. The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft is pushing a bill in the Massachusetts state legislature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36Lo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}