Microsoft responds to Google's Windows Moves

The FT did release news regarding the ban on windows operating machines within their premises world wide. Google have not officially said anything about it and that has not stopped the guys over at Redmond from posting a blog that quiet directly responds to the ban. We had cowered this story yesterday.

As reported by the Financial Times Google employees said Google had taken this strong step especially after the China Hack thing which was called project Project Aurora. The hackers had targeted Gmail accounts and had made it in. Google said this happened because of windows security flaws. There is now a lot of debate going on over the internet as to the actually success of the operation on whether it was a software flaw or actually human flaws. Since the attackers knew their victims quiet well.

Either ways Google will now no more have windows operated systems within their company. 

Brandon LeBlanc has responded to this on the Windows Team Blog. He says even Hackers will admit that Microsoft is doing a better job at making their products more safe. He has also listed a few bullet point to drive his point home.

• We ship software and security updates to our customers as soon as possible through Windows Update and Microsoft Update to keep our customers safe.


• We highly recommend our customers enable Automatic Update to ensure they are protected from attacks.


• With Windows 7, we added improvements to BitLocker for disc encryption (we also introduced BitLocker-to-Go for external USB devices), and added enhancements to the built in Windows Firewall for better protection.


• Windows 7 has Parental Controls built in that can be combined with Windows Live Family Safety to create a safer experience on the PC for children.


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  Windows 7 comes with Internet Explorer 8 which includes SmartScreen Filter which has proven its success time and time again.
  


• And Windows 7 also uses Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) as well by randomizing data in memory.

The argument could go either way the fact remains that after so many years there are still so many flaws and security holes in Microsoft's windows operating system

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Four Real-Time search engines redefining Search

What is so special about Real-time search engines and how are the different from traditional  search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. Well real-time search engines are specialized and stick mostly to real time content. So as apposed to traditional search engines that will mix their data with real-time results. Real-time search engines can go much deeper. They can find you user comments from blogs, tweets, status updates and what not. They primary focus is to bring you the internet in real time and therefore are becoming popular to people who want to follow what's happening as it happens. Let's look at a few

1. Collecta. When you go to their home page they have a list of the most happening topics from around the web with links for you to go directly to that story. If you enter a search query they immediately look up your query in Stories as in blog posts, comments in blog posts, updates from Twitter, Jaiku, Identica. Photos from Twitpic, yfrog and Flickr. Videos from YouTube and Ustream. This gives you a complete coverage of the real-time topic you want to look for. If you want to look only for photos then just click the box next to photos and you will find photos being posted in Real-time relating to your topic of search.

2. SocialMention. Says on their website that they are like Google Alerts but for social Media. You can use their search bar but you also need to use the drop down menu to specify the media in which you want your search to be conducted. The drop down menu includes blogs, videos, pics, comments events etc. You can also create a alert for an 'Term' you would like to track. maybe the name of your company, developing news story or the latest celebrity gossip.

They also give you an average of the types of blog post in relation to some sort of EQ. This is what we got when searching for Haiti in Blogs.

26%

strength

3:1

sentiment

21%

passion

12%

reach

1 minutes avg. per mention

last mention just now

52 unique authors

0 retweets

3. Searh.Infoaxe.com. The funny thing about this real-time search engine is that they specialize in the latest happenings around the web based on a topic. e.g you can type a bread topic like shopping, deals, movies, sitcoms, ebooks etc and they bring you the latest. Once you click the search button you can then displayed results in a bifurcated page. The left half will show you real-time results while the right side will show your the latest results fro Google. And a whole list of keywords on the top of the page to help you narrow down your search. This is a very good idea and helps people who are looking for let's say a nice shopping deal but don't know what they really want. Kind of like window shopping on the internet all in real-time. Nice

4. Yauba. This search engine goes straight to the point. You can enter your search query and by default search in all places and you get your answers. Their search is also "Privacy Safe" (Your safe from Cookies, recording privacy info and Third Party websites).

The results for your answers can be quiet staggering. Once you click enter after your query your are show results from, Internet Sites, Real-Time Search, Mainstream News, Social News, Blogs, Images, Videos, PDF, Word, Powerpoint and Social Networks.

You can narrow down your search by clicking on the 'More' button on the kind of media you want to see answers from, e.g only Video results.

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