An year ago we launched Microsoft Security Essentials. I remember the day as I was looking at the Twitter stream to see the overall reactions and they were simply great! Further on, when I travelled, the main complaint I heard in some countries was: “Why do we not have it?” and it is a fair question. . . . → Read More: One year free anti-malware and what we learned
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Consumerization of IT–How to address thisBring Your Own Device or Consumerization of IT are fairly hot themes in a lot of customer organizations. When I talk to customers, there are typically different reactions, once we bring this up. Some tell us, that it is not part of their strategy; some tell us that they plan to do it but that they have a hard time figuring out, how to secure such an environment; very, very ... 
10 Years of Trustworthy Computing at MicrosoftBefore joining Microsoft a little bit more than 10 years ago, I ran a team at PricewarehoureCoopers on e-Business Risk Management – classical security consulting in the Internet bubble time. When I announced that I will leave PwC and join Microsoft, I got interesting reactions (and remember, this was 2001). Mainly they were along two lines: Oh, you are joining a desktop company? ... 
10 Reasons to migrate off Windows XPI would like you to sit back, close your eyes and think about the year 2001. Think about how you used technology back then, how you used the Internet. Now, let’s take it a little bit further back in history and think of the year 2000. Just after we realized that the Year-2000-Problem was handled very well by the industry. How you used technology, how you used the Internet, the ... 
Office 365 Becomes First and Only Major Cloud Productivity Service to Comply With Leading EU and U.S. Standards for Data Protection and SecurityA long title but this was the title of the official press statement yesterday. Compliance is always a key question in the public cloud space. Therefore it is very important for us that we now achieved three things: Office 365 is compliant with EU Model Clauses, Data Processing Agreements and ISO 27001 among other standards. Office 365 is the first and only major ... 
It really made me think…
Roger If you have not seen these numbers, they are very impressive: Microsoft by the numbers. One of the most impressive figure in there is that we sold 150,000,000 Windows 7 licenses since the launch. Well, this figure by itself does not really impress you, no? It is just big I guess. Well there is another . . . → Read More: Microsoft By Numbers From time to time I do speeches to parents here in the community with regards to online safety for the kids and the teens. Being a parent as well, I have a natural interest in this theme, knowing that I probably have better insights in some of the challenges than most other parents. Therefore I . . . → Read More: What Teens Do Online I was reading a paper recently, where I initially thought it is a joke (it looked scientifically, therefore I was not too scared). But as our research department did it, it is serious and really, really good – at least it definitely made me think. It is called So Long, And No Thanks for the . . . → Read More: Why Today’s End-User Education Fails! Well, you know, fairly often when I look at showcases I am a little bit disappointed I have to admit. Mainly because the technology which is shown is really cool and I would love to leverage it – just it works in the US only. Or better, it works across the globe but the data . . . → Read More: Azure Showcase: The Eye on Earth I was reading two BBC articles this morning. Wow, this is scary, isn’t it? Look at the pictures below: I do not think that I would have seen that… It even has an integrated camera which is switched on, when you move the card in. That’s the original article: Would You Have . . . → Read More: ATM Skims – would you have figured them? Why pay for a Anti-Malware solution if you can get one of the best solutions in the world for free – go and download it! It is there: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ And now, the disclaimer: It runs only on genuine Windows! Have fun, enjoy. I am running it since quite a while with my friends and families . . . → Read More: Microsoft Security Essentials – Ready to download I am running Microsoft Security Essentials (called “Morro”) since quite a while on my Mediacenter and I am definitely convinced of it. So, go ahead and test it: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/resources.aspx – it will be our free Anti-Malware solution Roger One more proof that we listen to you: We made certain changes to Bing in order rot help you to protect from sexual explicit content. Please read the corresponding blog post Safe Search Update. Even though this is very good news, it does not change my view that education of parents and children is at . . . → Read More: SafeSearch in Bing |
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