February 1 is considered the “one year” anniversary of Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform (even though February 2 is the actual date that billing was “turned on”).
Last year, Microsoft said it had 10,000 Azure customers; this week officials are saying they have 31,000, though they are refusing to say how many of these are paying customers, how many are divisions of Microsoft, etc.
MAINTAINER OF THE COPYCAT SEARCH ENGINE Bing, Microsoft has been forced to defend itself against the accusation that it copied search results from Google and bunged them into Bing.
Yesterday Google accused Microsoft of tracking users' search patterns on Google's search engine and transferring the results onto Bing. Google claimed that in experiments consisting of synthetic queries that spewed out artificial and irrelevant search results, the very same results were returned by Bing weeks later.
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Microsoft has provided new comment on the porting of the Windows Phone 7 operating system to the HTC HD2, a handset that was not designed for the software. As we have noted before, Microsoft does not seem worried about the practice.
That has not changed. In regards to the porting of the OS, Microsoft had this to say:
“Microsoft does not support Windows Phones that have been altered from manufacturer and carrier specifications and we caution that such alterations can dramatically impact reliability, performance, compatibility and security”.
A vice president for Microsoft's Bing team denied configuring the Bing algorithm to copy Google search results in an effort to boost search market share.
What Bing does use is "clickstream" or customer data from its Bing toolbar to improve its search results, said Harry Shum, corporate vice president of core search development at Microsoft.
Whenever I hear about vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, I can’t help but think of the people I know who still use Internet Explorer. By far, those who are still using the browser “that came with the computer” usually have no clue that IE is the biggest target of malicious hackers out there.
Now comes word that there’s a new vulnerability in IE on all versions of Windows, one that allows bad guys to run code behind certain sites and see information that you probably don’t want anyone to see.
Nearly two million Kiwi internet users are at risk of having their computers hijacked and their emails, credit cards and bank accounts hacked.
Microsoft has issued a global warning that there is a security hole in Internet Explorer that allows hackers to install malicious scripts.
Microsoft is warning that a scripting flaw affecting all versions of Windows could result in “unintended information disclosure.”
The flaw, which lies in the MHTML protocol handler and affects the way Internet Explorer handles web pages and documents, could enable hackers to steal private information or hijack computers, according to the security advisory. Users could inadvertently download malware by clicking on a web link.
To understand Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform, it's necessary to understand how the Microsoft Datacenters work. This article provides an overview of how Microsoft Designs their datacenters and why the Generation 4 Datacenters are so revolutionary.
Microsoft released Security Advisory 2501696 in response a scripting vulnerability in Internet Explorer that affects all versions of Windows.
The security hazard is found in the MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML (MHTML) protocol handler. The attach mechanism is similar to a server-side cross-site-scripting (XSS) exploit, in which a malicious script could run on a user's computer after clicking on a link. While this vulnerability could be exploited by hackers, the chances of an attack are slim, according to some software security analysts.
