Reminds me of Paypal where I'm simply unable to tell whether some mails from them were phishing or not (regardless of time spent investigating these mails), and I believe that virtually no one would be able to tell.
They were even cognizant of the issue to the point where they set up a robo inbox you could forward any suspected phishing emails to and it would reply telling you if it was legit or not. It was something like phishing@paypal.com
It would seem to me that Microsoft would choose to link it to microsoft.com so that customers can easily recognize its authenticity.
Microsoft might, I suppose, have a policy against microsoft.com accounts on other firms infrastructure, and therefore if it needs a Google account uses gmail or other non-microsoft.com domains.
They have already failed this test: they are already publishing extensions using msftliveapps@gmail.com and msandapp.bgcextn@gmail.com, doubtless many others!
I believe Google requires you publish Chrome extensions with an @gmail address, in which case MS doesn’t really have a choice.
Absolutely untrue, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread. I have Chrome extensions published under a non-gmail email address.
Any idea what problem Google is solving by requiring the use of gmail?
Naivety on the internet, and people believing what they read on a web page without checking.
Google doesn't require a gmail adresse to publish.
Yeah, I didn't think it made sense.
Good grief--that is so evil (not to mention anticompetitive) that I didn't even consider it!
Not sure what would make using a Gmail account anticompetitive, but it's also not true. You need a chrome web store account (which they amusingly encourage you not to use your personal email for) which can use any email address.