<p>Outlook.com users need to be "protected" from Gmail's email-scanning ads, Microsoft has claimed.</p><p>The claim follows a survey by Microsoft that revealed people resent companies scanning their emails to display ads.</p><p>"Emails are personal and people feel that reading through their emails to sell ads is out of bounds," said Stefan Weitz, senior director of Online Services at Microsoft.</p><p>"We honour the privacy of our Outlook.com users, and we are concerned that Google violates that privacy every time an Outlook.com user exchanges messages with someone on Gmail," Weitz. "This campaign is as much about protecting Outlook.com users from Gmail as it is about making sure Gmail users know what Google's doing."</p><p><a href="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/379747/microsoft-outlook-users-need-protection-from-gmail-ads">Keep reading...</a></p>