we actually see what happened last week, the microsoft outage, is demonstrating why we made the right decision. we were able to have a single point of contact. microsoft kept us up to speed on what was causing the email delays. we were in close contact with them. we lost no messages. grant it, there were some delivery problems for a while. when the issues were resolved and when we started receiving email again, it only impacted us for about four hours. again, since nothing was lost, it was perceived as a delay by our users. there was a single message we could provide out to our users at the system at the time. in the past when we had outages it was a complex problem to solve. you had seven systems. if the outage happened in the evening you were calling workers back in. with a microsoft solution they're available to us 24/7 to us to answer all our questions. obviously they are proactive in addressing the issue. because i come from the private sector in a previous life and now work in the public sector, the central i.t. department that our customers expressed concern, we come fought cen

the android? what do you think microsoft can do? >> well, any time you're challenged by -- you're coming from behind on a platform, again, you have to meet the capabilities and then have some things that are persuasive to get people to switch because people won't switch unless something is dramatically better. take -- you know, look at the example of google. there was a time, i don't know, there must have been five or other search engines and then they came up with something better. and so to really take back huge chunks of market share you got to meet and beat, and that's -- and that requires, you know, shorter development cycles, maybe. your best people, agility, and focus. a lot of focus. >> i mean, you've said steve ballmer has one of the toughest jobs in the world right now. if you could give him what advice, like what would it be? >> oh, i've given them advice. [laughter] >> such as? >> those are private conversations. >> oh, but it's okay, we're friends. it's cool. >> i thought c-span was here. >> no, no. they're not here. it'

the entry. what can microsoft do? >> anytime you're challenged when you're coming behind, you have to need the capability command map things persuasive to get people to switch because people won't switch him a something astronomically better. forget the example of google. there is a time when there must've been five other search engines. and then they came up with something better. so to really take a huge chunk, you've got to meet one that requires shorter development cycles, maybe, your best people, and agility and autofocus. >> you said steve ballmer has one of the toughest jobs in the world right now. if you could give them advice, what would it be? >> well, i've given him advice. >> such as? >> some of those are private conversations. >> it's okay. we're friends. >> i thought c-span is here. >> no, no, they're not here. i'm curious, what was the advice? >> just the kinds of things we've been talking about. what areas to improve some of these products products tablets. >> yeah, where's microsoft from the tablet? wo

with the microsoft security solution as it related with the certifications they have and the fact they have clients if not as high or higher security requirements than the city does. it gives us a level of comfort that it gives us with solutions that we can rely on a security standpoint. again, back to the partnership, i know the outage is seen as a negative thing. we know we have a partner when we need to deal with security incidents, when we have questions about security, we have a trusted partner that has a record of being proactive and we can rely on them to work with us. >> it's designed from the ground up with security and privacy needs of our customers. as john mentioned, we're provisioning for, you know, health organizations, financial organizations. you know, i think of glaxosmithkline and jpmorgan chase and those that have stringent security issues. again, microsoft has programs in terms of the government security program where we proactively share security information with our governments around the united states here. so it is paramount to us. it's a piller of our organizat

google may soon have to make the same choice microsoft did settle or fight the government for years. lande says google is already arguing that any monopoly power it has can change with the click of a mouse. >> microsoft said that 20 years ago, and they still pretty much have a monopoly in p.c. operating systems. it's true in theory, but nobody thinks anybody's going to put google out of the search business any time soon. >> reporter: it's like comparing pluto to earth. balto worked on the microsoft case, but believes google is different. microsoft used it's monopoly power to shut out competitors. balto says google doesn't. but if regulators do want to restrain google, balto says they will run into the same problem they had with microsoft: government lawyers aren't software engineers. >> consumers will be worse off if there is a national nanny second-guessing google's decisions on how it operates search. >> reporter: balto argues google also protects consumers from scammers and online frauds that try to manipulate search results. but competitors charge google also has the ability to p

with the help with the school district, with microsoft working with us, with the educational fund, and beyond 12 and the nonprofit we have to identify things that other people have said, years ago, the kind of prevented them from being successful. we have that all here. we have been identifying it to make it easier so you do not have to deal with it the first time. you can ask what is going to happen, how you cope with it, and how you get around stuff that will be in your way so you can be successful and show other people their investment in new is a good one. every major league player, every successful person has had someone else invest in them. right now, we believe in you. i will tell you right now, i am investing in new. as the mayor of san francisco, i am looking at you right now, and i will look at you as people can succeed me in this job. i believe you can do it. i know you can if you just put your mind to it, and you do not get distracted from the naysayers, people who do not want you to succeed, or the events that may happen when there is family or friends that distract you. k

the cloud. additional storage space at amazon starts at $20 per year. meantime, microsoft focused on its video game platform, the xbox 360, and its kinect motion device. in the two years since announcing the kinect, sales have been hot-- more than 10 million worldwide. microsoft unveiled a library of new video game titles for the holiday season, access to google's youtube through the xbox network, as well as other live tv programs. microsoft also adds a search function to its video game console, using voice recognition technology. dennis durkin is the chief operating and financial officer at microsoft's interactive entertainment, the division responsible for xbox. >> you know today how difficult it is to find content inside your digital television ecosystem, and now we've solved that problem for consumers today. so whatever show you want to watch, whatever movie you'd like to see, whatever game, whatever piece of content you're going to want to find, we're going to make that super easy for a family. >> tom: lance ulanoff is the editor-in-chief of pcmag.com. he joins us ton

over the next 12 months we'll be rolling out the entire city on the microsoft platform, a new email system will be in place for all of the employees, state of the art. we're very excited about this opportunity. we're excited not just about the email but what it means for the future of the city, where we're going for the next five years. as many of you tomorrow we'll be released our first five-year strategic i.t. plan for the city. this is one of the key projects, one of really the key initiatives that we're focusing on the city to demonstrate where we want to go over the next five years. and we want to thank gail and microsoft for being here today and talking a little bit about this project. gail, if you want to talk a little bit. >> thank you very much to john. i'm hoping everyone can hear us ok on the other side. thanks so much for joining us as well. and i just want to really say thank you to john and his entire team here in the city and county of san francisco for this partnership. and the tremendous vision that you've shown in terms of the efforts to continue to have a have a t.j.ic v

just the fact that microsoft is here, and the whole educational system makes it a lot better for me. i breathe easier now to know that i have all this support. just to come from where i was -- i believed that there really was no way. there always is a way. there is no last stop. there is always opportunities. that is what it is all about, and that is what i am grateful for, that they offered me all these opportunities. [applause] thank you. >> well, thank you. what an exciting announcement with great partnerships as we continue to get you all to college. i do not know if there are any questions, but if not, we are just really thrilled that microsoft has stepped in and step up and is going to support our kids the way that you are, and clearly, our partners will continue to work really hard for you. this is your summer, guys. this is where you start to show what you will be doing in the fall. congratulations to all of you. good luck during the summer. we look forward to continuing to support you. [applause] >> bye, everybody. yeah! >> good afternoon. thank you for coming out here on th

meet the microsoft genius who spent a personal fortune to teach the world's best chefs and you how to cook perfect food. it takes him 30 hours to make a burger, but you'll get a taste of his skills in minutes. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," june 24th, 2011. >>> good evening, i'm bill weir. and we begin tonight with breaking news out of new york, where late tonight the state senate passed legislation permitting same-sex marriage. four republicans joined 29 democrats to pass the measure that failed a couple years ago. when governor andrew cuomo signs that bill 30 days later, new york will be the sixth state in the nation, plus washington, d.c., to recognize gay marriage. >>> and we turn now to another breaking story out of nevada, a tragic one at that. a big-rig semi making a long haul through the nevada desert ran a crossing and t-boned an amtrak passenger train this afternoon, carrying nearly 220 people, killing at least two and injuring more than 100. with the details, here's

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built so you can rule the air. >>> microsoft showed off the next version of windows. the touch screen interface is what it comes with. it looks like microsoft's smart phones. the new start screen replaces the start button that every windows users has lived with for years now. the company did not say when the new windows would be released. >>> a baby swan hatched on monday. they named her martha. they say she is very active and spends her day swimming in the law giewn. she may have some siblings soon. her parents are keeping protective watch over their three unhatched eggs still in the nest. >> we will have more soon. >> who is naming these creatures? blanche? we need to help them out. the power went out in st. louis, but it had nothing to do with the giants bats. and tone fee larussa pulled the plug on a giant victory. [ female announcer ] at the jcpenney appreciation sale get an extra 20% off apparel shoes and accessories with your jcpenney rewards credit card! save on all regular, sale & clearance items! no exclusions! that's an extra 20% off styles for her an extra

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the old aol wall guard p, the microsoft network service, we could go on and on about closed, not accessinghe internet spaces, and tell me companies that have done that successfully, and then tell me about google, amazon, yahoo, facebook, twitter, and i mean, at some point the economics prove that you're operating at your apparel to tell your customers they can't go where they want to on the internet. less are inclined to do that type of thing. >> host: it's the hearing for higher end users paying more. mr. jon leibowitz is surprised it has not taken off more. is that a decision on price hearing or a decision to come from washington? >> guest: i think it'll be a market place decision. the ftc that explicitly in net neutrality, that kind of caring, it was okay, even went so far to say it's the only fair way to manage the network, and we should say something about that. when we say "fairness," you know, in a shared network in my neighborhood, the vast majority of my neighbors get e-mail and surf web pages. if one of the neighbors is running a music server because they love music and have 9,00

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to the microsofts, to the apples, but also to the hardware manufacturers? what do you think you need them to listen to? >> i would like them to knows there over 2 billion people today that have access to broadband, that there is more than 5 billion people who will need access to it. therefore they need to think about that part of the population. 5.3 billion mobile users today, but another 2 billion using internet. and we need to break the digital divide. >> thank you very much indeed for joining me here in london, secretary-general of the international telecommunications union. >>> to the problem of india's black money. we'll have a look at how the government hopes to go after unreported, untaxed wealth that story straight ahead. >>> welcom business today." the french finance minister christine lagard is the front-runner for the international monetary fund but that is not stopping her from continuing to campaign hard. today she heads to india to reiterate her pledge to give developing countries a greater say in imf decisions. indian leaders says they want s

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the lead character. it's due out next summer. microsoft is in the cloud above your head.pany is flying small planes above cities taking pictures at one foot resolution. 152 cities will be photographed for the microsoft bing maps. and the chicago museum looking for someone to live in this glass house for a month straight. as part of an exhibit. you'll be replacing a young woman whose month is almost up. after the museum closes for the night you can wander wherever you want. you can sleep in the german u-boat, you can apply on line. 1500 people applied to live in the box. >> they don't have fears of claustrophobia. >> or museums at night. could get creepy. >> you and ben stiller. thanks, scott. this morning congresswoman gabrielle giffords continues to make big steps in her recovery. her spokesman says she attended an awards ceremony at nasa. they say she stood up from her wheelchair and hugged her husband after he received a space flight medal. remarkable. she has been undergoing rehabilitation after the shooting in tucson that left her and 12 others wounded. and six peopl

sales of the microsoft x-box jumping almost 40%. hackers have broken into a game developer but along the computer network of the u.s. senate. >> free data service will be offering free service for a year. you sign up for the plan and it's only available on saturday the day before father's day. >> at the new york stock exchange i'm jane king with the bloomberg business report. >> disgraced congressman anthony weiner can count president obama as one of his critics. he says the new york democratic embarrassed himself and his wife and family and if we in weiner's shoes he would resign. he was resisted pressure to step down in the wake of his sexting scandal. house ethics committee is launching an inquiry into the congressman's action. they have granted weiner a two week leave of absence to seek treatment. >>> 49er great quarterback joe montana is recovering from a weekend accident at his ranch near calistoga. he tells mike shumann, he was riding all terrain vehicles after he had to ditch his after nearly rounding into one of his chin. he

the servers so you don't have to physically have them on something like this. and as your intro pointed out, it's not just apple, it's tboog el and am done and microsoft and other companies that are racing to get there. >> have there been hiccups in the way the cloud has been developed? >> it's still developing in its fullest form. google is pushing in certain directions and now apple is pushing in certain directions. >> am done. >> most people don't know this but amazon has an enormous cloud business where they operate cloud based stuff for other companies and you don't even know it so they're very big in there that and then i think people are going to have to decide whether they feel thei uff is sure the cloud, if they c -- you have to trust google and apple and microsoft who whoer's service ?res meaning it will be secure and be there when you want it or meaning privacy issues? >> both. all of thosehings. apple's announcements even showed pictures these truly gintic buildings they built to house all of these servers. competitors have similar buildings and they're saying, we're encrypting everything, all of the stuff that you send will be encrypted. messages w

the mayor joined representatives from microsoft to announce their new push to prepare students for the real world. microsoft is donating $500,000 in software and $15,000 in cash. >> i am investing in you. as the mayor i am looking at you right now as being people who can succeed me in this job. i believe you can do it. >> the initiative includes a chunneller program designed for high school grads. >> steve jobs is getting his own comic book. the comic book is pubbished by blue water productions. it will profile him and how he guided apple. it will be in book stores and available on august 24. >>> the rainy season looks like it's ending and things are drying up, why that could be a fast start to the fire season. >>> no high marks for meeting the budget but there is one thing that puts california lawmakers above the rest. >>> temperatures on the increase, i will show you the cities that will see the largest increase. >>> five boys charged with sexually assaulting fellow students during a field trip made their first court appearance today. they are being held and no pleas were entered tod

the effort came about before this round of cyber attacks on sony, citigroup and the cia. microsoft is setting up an office in the clouds launching a cloud-based version of its office software. it's office 365 and has all of the applications. it will be available on line in formats from any device. trying to confront google who has stolen a small percentage of business customers with keeper web-based alternatives so companies don't have to spend time, you know more about technology, installing all of the software. >> the mcgrews moved to google docs as well. making the updates is expensive. yeah. google docs. >> good to see you. >> thank you much. every time you get a new cell phone you think you're buying the best and the fastest. every time -- by the time you figure out how to use it the companies are promoting something better and faster. how can you tell which phone is the latest and greatest? we sent scott budman to find out. >> reporter: he's on it. she's on it. we're all on our cell phones pretty much all the time. whatever we use. >> verizon. >> at&t. >> i use sprint. >> rep

at the conference, microsoft announced it is adding live of it to xbox. o adding youtube and bing which will allow users to find more content by searching the web. youtube, live tv and all services including netflix and you had and hulu plus. it is like star trek. you know. >> it is easier. >> that's so bizarre. >> it is. >> beam you up. >> you can't keep up. >> thanks, jessica. >> i talked to a good start for scott pelley. he began his new job as anchor of the "cbs evening news" last night. he takes the anchor desk after years at "60 minutes." you can watch him every night right here on channel 9, every weeknight between 9news now at 6:00 and 9news now at 7:00. >>> howard says it will be near 90 today. slight risk of storms. he will let us know how hot it is going to get in the rest of the week. >> right now, a live look at 270 and 118 in germantown, maryland. things moving ok for the time being. or at least for this time of the morning. angie's next timesaver traffic report is 7 minutes away. >> here's what's on tv tonight... cw >>> welcome to 9news now.

. >>> plus, the latest entertainment from microsoft. we will tell you what's happening to the x-box. you are watching "good morning maryland" first and only at #:30 -- 4:30. >>> now "good morning maryland" at 4:30. >>> it's been hot, hot, hot here in baltimore with temperatures expected into the 90s again this week. lynette you are going to she is smiling and laughing. part of the sierra nevada didn't get the member o. look at this mess -- memo. look at this mess in kingville, california. snow coming down so hard, drivers stopped and put the chains on the tires in june a snowstorm late this year is unusual even for this mountainous area of the u.s. >>> now maryland's most powerful doppler radar and forecast certified most accurate by weatherate. >> i am thankful we are not getting the mess california is getting. take the 9 -- i will take the 90s instead of that. that's what we are going to get today. 90 is what i am forecasting. right now, not picking up on anything. all five sweeps are scanning the skies. the temperatures bel air elemen

still, microsoft dominates the productivity software market, with nine out of ten business computers running office. >> susie: tom, microsoft gained ground on today's news, rising 65 cents, or 2.5% to $25.80. let's take a look at tonight's market focus. traders call it a "risk on" day- traders call it a "risk on" day- - stocks and commodities up, the dollar drops and bonds fall. confidence that europe will successfully address the greek i.o.u. problem helped the major stock indices put up their second day of 1% gains. with the rebound over the past two days, let's look at the past 90 sessions of the s&p 500. the march lows continue to hold, and the drop we saw last week did not go as low as the drop we saw in the middle of the month. as oil recovered more than $2 a barrel, the energy sector led the way for the market. oil services firms national oilwell varco, fmc technologies, and halliburton saw the biggest gains in the group. each were up by at least 5%. as a sign of the building confidence the greek situation will not spiral out of control, this is the year to date chart of the ex