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ben_wyesterday at 7:19 AM1 replyview on HN

The same question can be asked in this case: if there's no money in it, why did Microsoft pay for the creation of a new Outlook that's apparently worse than the old Outlook?


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rstupekyesterday at 11:13 PM

Actually the answer is quite simple, their servers are the ones retrieving emails so they have access to the email contents (perhaps for training data?)