Beat Google? Microsoft’s new Silicon Valley search team ‘” styled as a startup within the giant software company ‘” worked around the clock this fall to make Bing the first major search engine that could tap into America’s stream of consciousness, doing real-time searches of Twitter and Facebook.

On Wednesday, I wrote about a battle looming between Apple and Google as discussions take place over the possibility of Apple making Microsoft ’s Bing the default search engine on the iPhone.

Microsoft Corp on Thursday released a patch to protect users of its Internet Explorer browser from attacks similar to those directed at Google Inc’s operations in China last week. Read the rest of the story

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I encountered a problem with a Microsoft encrypted file system and I want to explain how I solved the problem in case someone else has this same issue.

Solved. I recently moved a group of Windows Server 2003 servers to a new data center and upon recreating the scheduled tasks from the previous server, the tasks would run fine for about a day and then stop.