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MicrosoftSign in with a Google account - Discussion
Hey, everyone! Thanks so much for this discussion, we've learned a lot from your comments. We'd like to first make it clear that we do not plan to integrate Google services into Microsoft Edge by default. We are considering including an opt-in experience for users to attach their Google account to Microsoft Edge but are not ready to make a decision on it just yet.
I'd like to take this time to reiterate what Elliot posted back in November: One option available to you today to use a single user identifier across the various services you use is to create a new Microsoft Account using a @gmail address.
As you know, you can currently import your data from Chrome by going to edge://settings/importData. You can also sign into Google websites and remember your password in Microsoft Edge to reduce the number of times you need to sign in. Accessing your Microsoft Edge data on-the-go is easily done by signing into Microsoft Edge with a Microsoft account and syncing with Microsoft Edge across other devices and mobile.
As always, we will update here once we have more information. Please continue to provide your feedback and suggestions around this feature; the team will continue to review feedback even if we have moved something to Not Planned.
If you use office 365 they FORCE you to use Bing instead of Google as your search engine. And in order to change that, you have to go deep into settings to change it.
The difference between Google and Microsoft? Microsoft has had about 2 decades longer to perfect hiding their activities and an insanely larger market share. Nobody cares what Linux users are doing. They account for less than 2% of the market share and by your claim use a browser with major security and compatibility issues. So I care even less about what they have to say.
I'm not defending Google (or Microsoft), but if you're that concerned about privacy, yet you continue to use Microsoft products you are either in denial or of sub-par intelligence.
ChipBoundary Good point! I have a hunch that privacy exists more in our imaginations than in reality. I am always amused by those who seem highly concerned about Microsoft or Google gathering data from their email messages or search histories, but seem quite comfortable sharing their life stories on Facebook! LOL And, of course, some of the posters here are probably not old enough to know about the stunts Microsoft used to pull to kill off competition. MS used to spend a lot of time in court, didn't they?
To the point of this discussion, though, I like the new Edge, and am using it as my default browser and, yes, I am still a Google user. Everything works just fine. I have a Chromebook that I use infrequently when I travel, and it doesn't really matter that much that it won't sync with my Edge stuff. But I don't really understand the objections people have to the concept of being able to sync Edge with a Google account. After all, one of the big advantages of the new Edge is its ability to use the Chrome Web Store. Are the people objecting to integration with Google accounts also objecting to the use of Google's Chrome Web Store services? I don't think so. Anyway, it was just a thought, and I didn't mean to stir up a lot of US vs THEM arguments.
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QuietType wrote:ChipBoundary Good point! I have a hunch that privacy exists more in our imaginations than in reality. I am always amused by those who seem highly concerned about Microsoft or Google gathering data from their email messages or search histories, but seem quite comfortable sharing their life stories on Facebook! LOL And, of course, some of the posters here are probably not old enough to know about the stunts Microsoft used to pull to kill off competition. MS used to spend a lot of time in court, didn't they?
To the point of this discussion, though, I like the new Edge, and am using it as my default browser and, yes, I am still a Google user. Everything works just fine. I have a Chromebook that I use infrequently when I travel, and it doesn't really matter that much that it won't sync with my Edge stuff. But I don't really understand the objections people have to the concept of being able to sync Edge with a Google account. After all, one of the big advantages of the new Edge is its ability to use the Chrome Web Store. Are the people objecting to integration with Google accounts also objecting to the use of Google's Chrome Web Store services? I don't think so. Anyway, it was just a thought, and I didn't mean to stir up a lot of US vs THEM arguments.
Age is irrelevant. a 10 years old can have more brain and knowledge than a 50 years old.
you don't know whether those who are concerned about their privacy post their personal pics on Facebook or not.
Also Google's business plan revolves around data, Microsoft's business revolves around providing services.
I've linked articles throughout this topic you can review them.
Chrome extensions have clear boundaries on what data they can access on user's computer, you don't give full access to the extensions you install.
Google briefly explains the security model for extensions in the following blog post:
http://blog.chromium.org/2009/12/security-in-depth-extension-system.html
Only install extensions by trusted sources.
