voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/26/2008
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Microsoft is rising quickly on a running list of the Top 10 Worst Spam Service ISPs as maintained by spamhaus.org , a group that tracks unsolicited commercial e-mail. livespam.jpg The software giant debuted on the list earlier this month at number 9 (one being the worst), and has slid over the ...
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business.timesonline.co.uk - 11/30/2008
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SOFTWARE giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire
Yahoo s online search business for $20 billion (...
13 billion). The proposal forms the centrepiece of a complex transaction that would see Microsoft support a new management team to take control of ...
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Microsoft in $20bn Yahoo deal
custompc.co.uk - 11/28/2008
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Posted at: 11:12am 28th November 2008 by Ben
Hardwidge Windows 7’s new WARP system can run Direct3D...
10 and 10.1 on the CPU, doing away with the need for a hardware 3D accelerator in some circumstances DirectX CPU It turns out that Intel isn’t the only ...
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Windows 7 allows DirectX 10 acceleration on the CPU
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Top-5 spammer ISP list includes... Microsoft
The Tech Report: News —
... 11:19 AM on November 26, 2008 There's a chance a good number of your junk mail might originate from Microsoft's domains, according to a blog post by the Washington Post's Brian Krebs. Krebs quotes numbers from spam watchdog Spamhaus, which places Microsoft at number five on a top-10 list of worst spam Internet service providers. Microsoft allegedly entered the list in ninth place earlier this month and rapidly slid up. According to Spamhaus, spammers are "abusing Microsoft's live.com and livefilestore.com properties to redirect visitors to sites that peddle fake pharmacy ...
Microsoft on top 5 spam friendly ISP list
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... in the Top 10 list for the very same activity, but that the company quickly took steps to remove or shut down the offending domains.
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"It should not be difficult for a company with Microsoft's resources to identify and mitigate that abuse in-house without any external input, but so far this has not happened," Cox said. "Microsoft's live.com system has for some time been supporting an illegal drug sales operation, and Microsoft has known this."
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