Plain English, please!
Let's be real, few of us take the time to actually read through long and boring service agreements, and many of us skip privacy statements until someone raises hell on the Internet that a company has overstepped its bounds. Maybe that will change for users of Microsoft's various services once the Redmond outfit consolidates and simplifies the language.
Microsoft is expanding its Services Agreement to cover most of its consumer services, like Bing, Cortana, Microsoft accounts, OneDrive, Outlook.com, Skype, Xbox Live, and others. At the same time, Microsoft is refreshing its Privacy Statement, all in an effort to be more transparent, make things easier to understand, and avoid the repetitiveness that came about from having separate documents for multiple services.
"In a world of more personalized computing, customers need meaningful transparency and privacy protections. And those aren’t possible unless we get the basics right," Microsoft said in a blog post. "For consumer services, that starts with clear terms and policies that both respect individual privacy and don’t require a law degree to read."
In other words, expect more plain English language and less of the stuffy legalese that these things are typically known for.
Microsoft said the altered documents will hit the web on August 1 and will cover new technologies such as Windows 10.
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