Google has cut down their privacy policies to one single document that covers all of their products and services. They followed that up with a letter to Congress explaining the reasons why they created the new policy, insisting that privacy will still be properly maintained such as refusing to sell user information to advertisers. Frank X. Shaw, the Corporate VP of Corporate Communications at Microsoft, wrote a blog post today saying that the company will be placing a series of ads in publications bashing on Google “to remind people of the alternatives.”

Microsoft has announced that CES 2012 will be the last time they will be giving a keynote at the annual gadget conference. The company will continue to participate in CES, but the company will not have a keynote or a booth after this year’s conference. Why? “because our product news milestones generally don’t align with the show’s January timing,” stated Microsoft Corporate VP of Corporate Communications Frank X. Shaw. This is a big deal because Microsoft has had a 20-year working relationship with the Consumer Electronics Association. [TechNet]

Microsoft Corporation corporate VP of corporate communications Frank X. Shaw wrote a blog post on the official Microsoft Blog that touts some of the latest numbers around the company’s products and benchmarks against Apple and Google. Below are some of the numbers: