Friday, September 13, 2013

Reddit AMA featuring Microsoft Outlook.com team tackles NSA, IMAP, Gmail

<p>Network World - Microsoft's Outlook.com engineers and product managers, a little more than a year since the revamped messaging service launched, took to Reddit Thursday to field questions on topics that ranged from the controversial (NSA email snooping) to the technical (IMAP support).</p><p>Reddit Ask Me Anything sessions have become increasingly popular forums for techies, celebrities and others to interact with the masses in public. The Outlook.com's AMA generated around close to 1,000 comments over a 3-hour span running past 2pm EST.</p><p>One hot topic: Will the Outlook.com team let the National Security Agency pry into users' emails? The team responded that "Outlook.com provides customer data only when we receive a legally binding order or subpoena to do so." Microsoft received 75K-plus requests for data from law enforcement involving 137,424 accounts, though those responding to Redditors said only about 2% of requests resulting in actual customer content being supplied.</p><p>[REDDIT AMA: Father of Ethernet Bob Metcalfe]</p><p><a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/091213-reddit-microsoft-273807.html">Keep reading...</a></p>

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