Consumerization of IT–How to address this
Bring 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 Microsoft
Before 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 XP
I 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 Security
A 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 ...
By Roger Halbheer, on June 29th, 2009% At the Analyst Event last week I was asked more than once about the File Classification Infrastructure. As it was something I never looked into the details, I started from the blog post I wrote mid May File Classification Infrastructure in Windows Server 2008 R2 and just wanted to collect some information about it. If . . . → Read More: File Classification Infrastructure: More content
By Roger Halbheer, on June 25th, 2009% I often have the opportunity to keynote events on security. I rarely want to talk about products but much more about the way I see the development around security on the Internet.
The reason why I do this presentation the way you see below is, that threats change and criminals evolved (and will still . . . → Read More: End-to-End Trust: The Internet – a safer place to work, play, learn and do business
By Roger Halbheer, on June 24th, 2009% We are just kicking off the EMEA TwC Analyst Summit, which is running for the next two days. The first time we are using technologies like Twitter live from the event and we encourage the Analysts to do the same. Therefore, you might follow what is going on there on different channels but mainly:
The . . . → Read More: EMEA TwC Analyst Summit
By Roger Halbheer, on June 24th, 2009% 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
By Roger Halbheer, on June 22nd, 2009% Wednesday and Thursday we are running an event for selected analysts in London. As you might know, I am tweeting via http://www.twitter.com/rhalbheer and I will try to do some live tweeting from the event during the event – never did this but I will try. In addition, there are some analysts we know that they . . . → Read More: Live-Tweet from Analyst Event
By Roger Halbheer, on June 16th, 2009% This is probably one of the best news I read since a long time. I often said, that I am convinced that we are in a lot of areas around security leading the industry. The complexity of building multi-purpose software in a secure way started to be addressed by us back when we introduced the . . . → Read More: Microsoft awarded for Security
By Roger Halbheer, on June 13th, 2009% 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
By Roger Halbheer, on June 11th, 2009% We started a program called “Browser for the Better” where we donate 8 meals to Feeding America per download of Internet Explorer 8 (until August 8th).
So, go out and download Internet Explorer 8 from the site above
Roger
By Roger Halbheer, on June 11th, 2009% A few years ago, we ran a huge event in Switzerland: We offered people in Switzerland to come to us (we were for a whole week at the airport in Zurich) with their PC and we check it for malware, patch it etc. We did this with a lot of partners and had live TV . . . → Read More: Welcome to reality: Apple Acknowledges OS X Malware
By Roger Halbheer, on June 5th, 2009% I got some questions on my blog post that you should not by a Wii at the moment. The key question was about whether this is just a teaser. Well, look at the demos they did at E3. You find them here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/
Roger
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