• “Black Screen of Death” Reports

    Oh, wow – sometimes the power of social media, the blogs and the Internet can backfire. I guess in the meantime you have seen the claims by Prevx that approx. 80 Mio of PCs are affected by the Black Screen of Death problems supposedly caused by our November...
  • The New Bing Maps – Freaking Cool!!!

    It has nothing to do with security – I know but it is very, very, very cool!!!! We just released the new Bing Maps explorer ! The first thing you will see is that we integrated Photosynth and Silverlight . So, no tiles anymore when loading a map. It just...
  • Microsoft Security Essentials – Coming even closer to you

    Today we were adding 17 additional markets to our Microsoft Security Essentials offering. I am really excited about that as all these markets are in EMEA: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Romania...
  • Algeria: Conference on Certification (eID)

    When I tweeted last week that I am on my way to Algeria, I got quite some reactions and questions that I shall report how it was. So, let me try to briefly summarize my impressions. I was invited to speak at a conference on certification in Algiers. Well...
  • Get Safe Online: Don’t be a Money Mule

    You know, there are people who blog late, there are people who blog very late and then there is me… I actually missed that one even though I was triggered: Mid November there was the Get Safe Online Week 2009 in the UK. Usually they do really good stuff...