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by oblio 2536 days ago
You're not looking at the big picture. Microsoft already has - and has had for 30 years! - the most valuable data in the world flowing through Excel and Word.

Code is cool, but they could already know everything every company in the world is doing.

I don't think they're abusing the trust put into them, we'd know by now.

They'd also probably be blown to smithereens by governments and other corporations, through lawsuits.