Many in the technology industry now agree that Microsoft's Software+Services approach will gain many followers as the killer rich client software applications use the services in the cloud to make the complete experience more valuable and pleasurable.  Even our competitors understand this and are making their service-based applications take advantage of the software on the rich client.  But what about my private data...is it really 'for my eyes only'?

Our Asset Inventory Service product, for example stores your asset and license information.  In the documentation we make several claims about privacy, stating that your "inventory data is not linked to customer names and not shared with anyone within or outside of Microsoft".  That's a strong statement, but how can we believe Microsoft?

Here's a privacy report published by privacy auditor Jefferson Wells that verifies that these claims and others made by Microsoft are absolutely true:  http://www.jeffersonwells.com/client_audit_reports/main.htm