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The Websense Security Labs blog is reporting that a new bot threat is capable of defeating the Windows Live Hotmail CAPTCHA security measure, and can break that code in less than 6 seconds, create new accounts, and …

What happens when you change the look, or some other aspect, of a site?  Does it increase traffic?  Are you getting results?  A new team at Windows Live, The Microsoft Experimentation Platform,  is developing an experimentation platform to make …

Next week, at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Expo at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, Microsoft is expected to unveil Live Mesh, a new product that will bring the first of Ray Ozzie’s services vision to light.  Live Mesh combines a …

We gave you word last night that the Live Maps to Multimaps.com debacle had been resolved, and now we have a bit more explanation, from the Live Maps / Virtual Earth blog:

But a couple of unfortunate bugs caused

Just checked on maps.live.com and noticed a bunch of new features, and checked with the Virtual Earth / Live Maps blog and sure enough the new release is now live.

Denver in 3D (you really have to try it out, …

One of the newly improved features of Live Maps is the traffic re-routing feature, called Clearflow, which can re-route Live Maps directions based on traffic information.  The new system, updated initially for 72 US cities, takes into account not …

Yesterday’s flurry of activity on the MSFT-YHOO front had so many plot turns that my head is still spinning, but at the end of the day, analysts are still leaning in favor of a MSFT-YHOO deal.  We could breathlessly …

The New York Times is breaking the news that a new feature for Live Search Maps, called Clearflow, will be announced later today, and the Virtual Earth / Live Maps blog has confirmation.  According to the Times:

The Clearflow system

(Note: while we’ve been serving up a number of potential new Windows Live logos recently, this isn’t one of them.  I just happen to like Clifford the Big Red Dog)

Much has been made recently about last night’s …

With all the talk about Microsoft’s attempted acquisition of Yahoo!, and with a little help from Nielsen Online, we thought we’d make a quick comparison of some of the main features of both services.  I asked Nielsen if they …