That translates as....'you may not see the ads but your content will still be scanned'.

Just to be clear....

And Hotmail.

Hotmail/Outlook.com doesn't scan your email for ads.

Beat me to it.

Also, kona...it's now Live.com

as to the other forms of scanning, Jafo... I snuck in a link to here: 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2150281/REVEALED-Hundreds-words-avoid-using-online-dont-want-government-spying-you.html#ixzz1w1SkH6gY

And that's the government doing it...yet another end run around those pesky First and Fourth Amendments.

it's run by the same company that already admitted scanning SkyDrive folders, so i wouldn't count on it.

i don't have a problem with it in general, it sure helps the Gmail spam filter, haven't seen spam in my inbox since years. you can't really expect absolute privacy with a free service.

I read it somewhere that Microsoft does indeed scan emails just like Gmail.

http://www.wired.com/business/2012/08/how-microsoft-will-profit-off-webmail-without-reading-your-inbox/

Precisely.

Interesting. Thanks. I'll still stick to Gmail.

right in this article they already admit that they do scan your mail to a small extent. wether one wants to believe that this is all there is depends on how much a fan of Microsoft or how much a cynic one is.

Could be, but Google is an ad company.  Microsoft isn't.

oh they are one too, they are just not good at it. else you folks at Wincustomize probably would use Yahoo Bing Network (Media.net) instead of Google Adsense.