Re: Well he would say that wouldn't he?
Remember that MS is just Slurp Three, after Slurp One (Google) and Slurp Two (Facebook), so they are still playing catch-up - so while Google can see the ban as a way to hinder its competitors, MS see it as a stop to its attempts to catch up.
Hope you don't use any Google or Facebook service too... I think both have an enormous trove of images on their server they can still use to train their AIs... MS will need to buy some photo site to catch up.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
