Microsoft Leaps on "User Privacy" Bandwagon With Maze of Windows Live Settings

Windows Live just got refreshed, and as it's Microsoft's social-interconnection front end, the company felt the need to explain how it's improving user privacy. At great length. Because, you know, "people care very much about" it.

Given the brouhaha surrounding Facebook's most recent big-scale mess-ups concerning user privacy, and high-profile leaks of user data from big names like AT&T, Microsoft almost had to step up to the mike to explain in public how it's protecting, empowering, or...