what do you think microsoft can do?>> anytime they're challenged coming from behind on a platform, can you do need the capabilities and enough things that are persuasive to get people to switch because people won't switch unless something is hermetically better. look at the example of google. there was a time when there must've been five. there was yahoo! and five other search engines and then they came up with something better. so to really take that huge chunks come you got to meet and beat and that requires shorter development cycles may be, your best people, agility and focus. a lot of focus. >> you have said that steve ballmer has one of the toughest jobs in the world right now. if you could give him advice, what would it be? >> well, i've given him advice. [laughter] >> such as? >> those are private conversations. >> that's okay. her friends. >> at that c-span was here. >> no, no. 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. w

what do you think microsoft can do? >> anytime they're challenged coming from behind on a platform, can you do need the capabilities and enough things that are persuasive to get people to switch because people won't switch unless something is hermetically better. look at the example of google. there was a time when there must've been five. there was yahoo! and five other search engines and then they came up with something better. so to really take that huge chunks come you got to meet and beat and that requires shorter development cycles may be, your best people, agility and focus. a lot of focus. >> you have said that steve ballmer has one of the toughest jobs in the world right now. if you could give him advice, what would it be? >> well, i've given him advice. [laughter] >> such as? >> those are private conversations. >> that's okay. her friends. >> at that c-span was here. >> no, no. 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.

what do you think microsoft can do? >> anytime they're challenged coming from behind on a platform, can you do need the capabilities and enough things that are persuasive to get people to switch because people won't switch unless something is hermetically better. look at the example of google. there was a time when there must've been five. there was yahoo! and five other search engines and then they came up with something better. so to really take that huge chunks come you got to meet and beat and that requires shorter development cycles may be, your best people, agility and focus. a lot of focus. >> you have said that steve ballmer has one of the toughest jobs in the world right now. if you could give him advice, what would it be? >> well, i've given him advice. [laughter] >> such as? >> those are private conversations. >> that's okay. her friends. >> at that c-span was here. >> no, no. 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.

microsoft does issue patches to pirated versions of windows. if it's a critical patch, we issue that. you have to be at the right level in order to receive that patch, but we absolutely issue it. if it's a critical nature, and you have a pirated version and you connect to the windows site, you can install that automatically. >> how hard would it be for a nation state to create a botnet bigger and more stable than this one? >> not hard at all i wouldn't think. >> depends on the nation state. >> it does. [laughter] >> i mean, if you are -- if you're aware of a as a rule inert and can ex-- vulnerability and you can exploit it, something like that can spread very, very rapidly. >> i think it's simpler than that. some of the new technologies now, now attack vectors through the ad exchange, for example, and browsing espn.com and hit, those are some of the things that we're looking at is ways to do mass compromise and get -- >> the term appears to be away from that, doesn't it? for a long time it was creating massive botnets, and now the trend is thes

>> the microsoft security resource center that way on the tablet. understanding if there's a vulnerability in the os or any of our components is being exploited, we way that. there's a lot of people that are dedicated to the. we know as soon as week issued a patch a bunch of people is going to say okay, what did they change? they are put in the pits. a pits. yvette cooper start to look at what vulnerability was patched. that's something it does go into the equation. at the international botnet task force meeting in virginia in 2008 when we announced the patch, i started member the number, we said hey, let's start looking at this. we have the advantage of having security researchers from 45 countries in the room. so we have to get rid of the last session, we spent about an hour have with everybody, but folks in the room with us. with samples of malware and some of the exploit code. we started shifting it around. but we knew, it was a more mobile vulnerability. we need to get the patch out there. there were people in the room patching their machines l

microsoft's phone software is far behind google's android system and apple's iphone, and microsoft has almost no market in the tablet software business. >> 11 month low for the euro currency. from 1.36 to 1.30 since the summit of euro leaders. today's drop came as germany talked about refusing to increase the size of the bailout. u.s. oil, brent oil and gas futures all up by two percent. pointing thed to possibility of less oil from iran to the global market to today's rally. that's today's market focus. >> susie: if you've had trouble finding a job, you might have better luck after the first of the year. a new survey by manpower, the workforce solutions company, says employers are slightly more optimistic about hiring in the first three months of next year. diane eastabrook has details. >> reporter: manpower says the first quarter of next year is the most promising one for hiring in four years. a survey of more than 18,000 employers nationwide found net hiring should grow 9% in the first three months of next year. that's up from the 7% projected for the current quarter, and about even

he is also the senior manager for investigations of microsoft it's a crime unit, and he just gave me his cradle sticker, may he as an extra one. he has many tales to tell. so i just -- before they talk alike to talk a little bit about our subjects. the history of the worm, the term probably most of you're familiar with colleges let me set it out. it originally came from a wonderful science fiction novel written by john brodeur in 1975 in which he posits something called the tape one. and the wonderful thing about the book, and particularly with respect is that he dismissed an authoritarian regime to control their society through basically in on the prison now work. and the rebels e used to born in, and the only way the perishing could get rid of the warm us to take down the neck, and thus the lost control. so that would bring it up, sure. also probably all know that the first real warm browns were experimented with as eros -- xerox park but to researchers. are either of them here tonight? so i was looking in your paper in preparation for this, and i thought -- so what is a difference

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, microsoft spent $0 in washington. today, microsoft spends $9 billion annually. >> let me clarify, you are referring to another washington. >> i am referring to washington, d.c., far away from this one. >> just a quick warning, we have about five minutes left. >> the questions are excellent. please bring them forward. >> i have to be quick. this has me going nuts, i must say. in full disclosure, i am a big government democrat, no question, but i have run into government 1000 times and thought, this is the stupidest thing. but it does not happen more often in government than in the private sector, wells fargo, comcast, sprint. every single private entity idea with has regulations based on the assumption i am cheating and it makes it more expensive to deal with. my real question is, why do we believe this is about government versus free enterprise? the american system of government -- those founding fathers -- i read a lot of the federalist papers. they were not talking about john locke and economics. they were talking a

but outside the microsoft campus, things can be very different, especially for smaller businesses. drew altman heads kaiser family foundation, one of america's top health policy think tanks. in addition to studying insurance, they have to find it for their 120 employees, like any other smaller business. they faced a real challenge when one of their staff also had a million-dollar pregnancy. >> we offer our employees two choices of plans. one is a very high-end ppo, and the other one is an hmo with a name that sounds a little like ours. and so last year, we had an employee who happened to have a couple of very expensive premature babies, and the cost was in the millions of dollars, and i came in one day to learn that our premiums from the ppo had increased by 78%. we asked for justification. under california law, we're not entitled to any information whatsoever. so there we were, the most expert organization in the land on health insurance, helpless. what did we do? we did what the hardware store would do, or the pizza place or the dry cleaner-- the only thing we could do, we switch

the new microsoft store at was the number one story ing microsoft the nation. >> it was much of the same everywhere in the country. people packed a target store in park, florida. that same scene played out all over the nation. online retailers are offering deals all week long. >> you can read much more about the after christmas craziness at wjla.com.n coming upve an update tonight at 11:00. >>> we are on storm watch. this guys stayed clear today, much different a -- the sky stayed clear today, much different a story. >> we could be looking at between half an inch and an inch of rain. right now, 44 degrees and reagan airport. look at satellite and radar. clouds are already beginning to the south and west. they eventually will produce some heavy rains. for tomorrow afternoon and into hours.ly evening once this system moves out of to become whenng the outside. -- windy outside. here is our forecast as we move evening hours. our temperatures will be in the and 40's. we will see an increase in clouds. a look at the extended outlook a few minutes. the race for the white house, the first big te

microsoft is releasing a new xbox update that let's users control the device with its voices.reported, microsoft is making something that makes your new roommate hate you, a, brks, a, a, a, a, a, a. pause. xbox pause! >> tonight, jimmy welcomes actress sarah jessica parker, taylor swift. that's weeknights 12:35, 11:35 on your local nbc station. >>> there's good news and bad news for you fans of "the hangover" series. bradley cooper says shooting will begin in september on "the hangover 3" acknowledging there were some problems with the second film, just a few. he promises this one will be a little different. he also says, however, this one will be the last. >>> during a taping break, rosie o'donnell told the audience of her "rosie" show she's getting married to girlfriend michelle rounds who she met earlier in a starbucks. the e news host and reality tv show announced yesterday on the tv show she decided to get a double mastectomy. >>> 87-year-old talk show host larry king says when he dies he wants to be frozen into a state of suspended animation. do you know what that means,

. >> i'm calling from microsoft to inform that you your computer is loaded with virus and will crash. man on the phone warned if she didn't act fast, the computer would release all her personal information to the worldwide web. >> this alarmed me and, of course, the shock that i didn't think. >> she did what the man told her she went to this website and went this the th buttoned and cursor came up and begin to control her computer. >> he got in and he pulled up the menu. >> the cursor was whizzing around the casino, clicking websites all the while caller probed for more information. >> he asked me several times, where my visa card was. i told him the name of the bank. >> yellow warning signs popped occupant screen, it was evidence of those viruses. >> i said what can i do it about it. they said they could fix it but it would cost, i believe it was $249. >> the caller kept pressuring her to pay for it. that is when she legalized the problem was not a virus. it was the man on the phone. the browser on the screen. >> let go of my computer and i was extremely upset by the time i hung up.

, microsoft spent $0 in washington. today, microsoft spends $9 billion annually. >> let me clarify, you are referring to another washington. >> i am referring to washington, d.c., far away from this one. >> just a quick warning, we have about five minutes left. >> the questions are excellent. please bring them forward. >> i have to be quick. this has me going nuts, i must say. in full disclosure, i am a big government democrat, no question, but i have run into government 1000 times and thought, this is the stupidest thing. but it does not happen more often in government than in the private sector, wells fargo, comcast, sprint. every single private entity idea with has regulations based on the assumption i am cheating and it makes it more expensive to deal with. my real question is, why do we believe this is about government versus free enterprise? the american system of government -- those founding fathers -- i read a lot of the federalist papers. they were not talking about john locke and economics. they were talking a

and the bos; he looks at even microsoft. the question of adopting windows. that would have been weird. >> and then there's this amazing operating system that steve jobs had done at next with the colonel to it, which it exactly what aim -- apple needed, and eventually apple buys flexion to get the operating system ask then you buy next to get steve jobs, and i'm not sure it was woz0 who said it, but i think it was, gill, meet steve jobs, game over. steve jobs is back in the saddle again. >> in fact you tell the whole story. emilio tried to resist that, but he just found himself -- >> game over. >> -- being drawn in. the reality distortion field kicks in and then begins argue my one of the greatest decade of a company. >> totally stunning. he creates with the new operating system -- he brings bill gates, his doppelganger, and gates comes back and makes the new os for the mac and he focuses on design. you remember and probably have it here but not on stage, the first imac. he first goes back to apple in 1997, and they form this bonding, and they create the imac

eventually did have to be broken up microsoft produces a crappy product microsoft has some of the great innovation of the ninety's it was it was you know it was the snappy you know what's the linux i mean you know it's you know it's there but in the course of its growth pattern it offers some of the greatest innovator only on created early on when he did management and i want to add to that what it what had one of ninety percent of the market had you monica and the e.u. is saying you know this is an op look i'm not arguing on this issue or in a rare moment all i can say is that all i can say is that i kind of do a fuzzy feelings about this but we should defer all due judgment to business first and then take it on when we defer to business we get things like the housing crisis we get things like the basically very healthiest for a business to start breaking them up that's all i mean you know a stockholder equity if you on the stock before the break up after the break up your equity was greater and you did you know what else to say and if we broke the stocks up it would make the idea that

technology and people, through collaborations with the social sector and with other companies like microsoft and dull. in other respects, they can be our competitors. but when we deal with disaster relare put aside and it is focused on how we can improve society. dodge that is an impressive array of services. i remind everyone, please be ready with your questions. our panelists would love to engage in a conversation with you. i will say as a point of reference, if it were not for katrina, would we be as far along in the development of this kind of corporate and business response as we are? or was this in the works long before katrina? our ability to respond like this, the infrastructure we have to respond. >> can you hear me? there we go. we have a long history. at our company is very old, so we have a long history of doing this. the disaster seems to be bigger now, but we have always had -- it could be a hospital. it could be a pharmacy. a provider out in the network having a problem. early on, in washington, we had a disastrous fire that occurred in the talon and wiped out the only to phar

. >> microsoft was supposed to roll out an update on its kinect system that would allow to you do moren just play games, like they're doing here. it would allow you to manipulate media, tell your x-box to play a certain movie or wave your hand and change a channel. microsoft tweeted there would be a delay but we don't know exactly how long that delay will be. >>> from x-box to xxx. instead of dot com, you can get a website at dot xxx. you'll notice we're not showing you any video right now. i think you can understand why. the idea is sites with naughty content can voluntarily sign up for the domain and easier for those types to be filtered so that kids don't see them. >>> ever ask yourself why does an ebook cost as much as a regular book? nobody has to print it or ship it. the european union is wondering the same thing this morning, launching an investigation into apple's business practices, wondering if apple worked with publishers to keep ebook pries high. >>> i am ready to buy myself a dell streak seven? it is too late, killing the tablet experience. what is the dell streak seven, y

. >>> microsoft will begin accepting orders for its new touch screen tv.you can hang it on a wall or use it as a table. devices like this are changing the way you interact with the screen you are watching now. a report on the drive to discover a smarter tv. >> reporter: this tv is revolutionary in a number of ways. newest screens are multi-touch and multiñ-user. multi-touch means multiple fingers can perform multiple instructions. >> you can do it with your fingertips, two hands. >> reporter: multiñ-users means multiple users can use multiple fingers at the same time. sure you can do multi-touch on your ipad or phone. here's something you can't do. >> optical tracking sees through the l d everything on the screen we see that can be hands, finger -- tips also real objects like this >> reporter: the newest screen can track an unlimited number of tpeupblgsers on an unlimited number of users. >> unlimited the physical space around the display that how many people can -- >> reporter: microsoft is promoting its product named surface as a way for doctors and pati

meantime, microsoft may be looking to add a blackberry to its product lineup. the "wall street journal" says microsoft and nokia flirted with the idea of making a takeover bid for research in motion. it's unclear how far those talks got, but they also turned down an approach. that's it for us at cnbc. back over to you. >>> security video of a fedex delivery man tossing a brand new computer monitor is now a smash hit on youtube. check this out. the footage shows what happens when a delivery man found a gate blocking the house, it was still closed, instead of using the keypad, he tosses the package over the gate. peering over his shoulder, the man marched back to his truck and on to the next delivery. the person who posted this video says he or she was home at the time with the front door wide open. the clip has gotten more than 200,000 views. this morning he's going oops. >> oh, my gosh, no kidding. here's your package. >>> here is your cold weather as well. >> the weather looked great in that video, too. you can't blame it on nasty weather. >> is that what you

users of proprietary software to have malicious software this is where we tell you some examples microsoft windows has known malicious features as features to spy on the user features to restrict the user these are called digital handcuffs and it has known back doors with which microsoft for instance can change anything remotely. mac os has known digital handcuffs to restrict users the recent apple products the i things these have a known back spy features known digital and coughs the nastiest ever and unknown back door flash player which is gratis but not free software has surveillance feature and digital and coughs most sell your phones will transmit your location on remote command that's a surveillance feature and a back to work together thing to control use your credit card i mean what exactly what i that's why normally buy things only with cash. point is that free software because a corporation typically it's a corporation has control over the users through this program it uses that power to abuse them it puts it intentional malicious features how can we protect ourselves free softwar

. >>> microsoft wants to set up shop in d.c. mayor vincent gray's office tells us negotiations for microsoft to take over part of st. elizabeth's hospital have been underway for a while. a formal announcement could come within weeks. the site is across from the west campus where the mammalian security department is developing its new head -- where the homeland security department is developing its new headquarters. >>> shawn yancy has your fox 5 top five. >> up first tonight facebook is reaching out to people considering suicide. no. 5, facebook launched a new service today called lifeline. it allows users to instantly connect with a crisis counselor. the crisis center workers will be available 24 hours a day to respond to users selecting the chat option. no. 4, an early heads up for metro, weekend track work will cause delays on parts of the red, orange, blue and yellow lines. trains will single track between various stations. work begins 10 p.m. friday and wrap up in time for the monday morning commute. no. 3, working moms are

. >>> coming up, microsoft wants to set up shop in the district. find out why the leader in one local county is open to the idea of slots. ots. >>> and maryland's governor turns to twitter to get lady georgia's attention. we'll have the details when we come back. ack.  >> price georges county executive baker is not opposed to slot machine gambling in the county as long as the money supports new projects there. a gaming company has been pushing for slots at rose croft raceway in prince georges county. he told "the washington post" that he will ask the state for a lot of money for the county during the next session. he expects slots will be part of the discussion to pay for the requests. >>> microsoft could soon be coming in to take over part of the santa elizabeth's hospital in the district. the d.c. mayor vincent gray's office tells us the negotiations for microsoft to build a technology hub on the east campus have been underway for awhile now. a formal announcement could come in weeks. the site is across the street from the west ca

microsoft -- we found that microsoft that they didn't know it was there. they didn't realize there is some old code lying around. there's not a lot of quality control basically in this industry. there's a lot of people that might place a piece of code on a website because they an advertising or some other relationship and then it never gets removed. >> host: what struck me as it seemed to be a case of, where you would talk with a company and say we had no idea we were keeping that information. they seem to have been rather frequently. >> host: i think that happens in almost every single case. i can't think of any that work like that. and i think a lot of what emerged from our reporting was sort of how unruly this whole marketplace is, that there is just -- people aren't aware of what going on. we sort of joke that we've become the privacy police. they come in and there's this thing happening. i didn't realize that was happening. we'll clean it up. >> host: julia angwin come if you would come and talk about the tracking devices, cookies, super cookies and t

we found that on microsoft's website they didn't know it was there. they just didn't realize it was an old code of law and morality and this happens a lot. there is not a lot of quality control basically in this industry, so there's a lot of people that might find a way to place the code on the web site because they had in advertising or relationship about one point and it never gets removed. >> host: what struck me about the series is that seemed to be the case a lot where you would talk with a company and they would say we had no idea we were getting that information. it seemed to happen rather frequently. >> guest: i think it happens with every single case. i can't think of any that were not like that. and it just i think a lot of what emerged from our reporting was how amoore will leave the marketplace is. people are not aware of what is going on. and we joked that we would become like the privacy police. we just come in and there is this thing happening. i didn't realize that was happening. we will clean it up. >> host: julie angwin if you would

came down and said microsoft, the people of adobe said, no, you have too small of a market share, and he never forgave adobe, which is why flash doesn't work on your i. a but the mark of a true genius of a company is not just when you think of things first, burt when you actually fail to think of something first, can you leapfrog, catch up? and so he realizes he had gotten aced out of the music business. that others were making cd burner trays and people were -- all of us were making -- downloading music from napster and making play lists and burning cds and you couldn't do that well on the apple. so he had to leapfrog and says we're going to make a perfect end-to-end thing with a juke box software, which is itunes, the store itself, and when they start making the ipod, he makes it so simple because it's integrated. you can put the complexity on the mac or the itune software so the device itself is not a complicated mp3 players. you could just look at it with the track wheel and it was intuitive, and he kept saying i want to be able to get wherever i want, whateverson want, in three c

microsoft started licensing out its copied version of the graphical user interface and started dominating the computer business, and so i think their relationship was doing fine as long as apple was doing fine, and the apple ii was the workhorse, making the money for the company, but the mac didn't, and so there was a horrible falling out that culminates on memorial day of 1985. >> before we talk a little bit more about the falling out in the post-85 period, let's talk about the invention of the macintosh itself, the design itself, and this is a point in the book where you insert the great famous quote from jobs "a good artists copies, great artists steal, and we are shameless about stealing great ideas. " that quote is associated with the genesis the macintosh. >> they take two visits to xerox park, and as you know, xerox had the concept of the desk top, a design meaning each pixel on the screen could be mapped to bits in the microprocessor, and so you can make a beautiful machine. we are old enough to remember, and if not, go throughout the museum here to remember what you have to do wi

argues that contrary to what companies like apple sony or microsoft may say jailbreaking is actually brought benefits to their products in the areas of innovation security and privacy let's get the details of exactly how jailbreaking helps rather than hurts businesses because that's definitely not something we're going to hear from the companies themselves joining me to discuss this is trevor tim activists at the electronic frontier foundation are trevor thanks so much for joining us tonight so in two thousand and nine that you have got this one exemption made for i phones this time tablets as well video game console is that seems like kind of a tall order. right so and like you said in two thousand and nine we got it for just smartphones but the problem with this this procedure is that you have to renew it every three years so we had to come back with another application to continue the exemption for smartphones and now we're trying to expand the i pads and other tablets which are you know essentially the same the same thing as a smartphone in the sense that you can run applications

does apple or so many are microsoft or any of these companies they have a response thus far to this kind of request you guys just put in. not yet we are waiting to see what happens and hopefully they won't. you know they won't try to go again sort of always us here because in the end everybody wins users and you fractures well so i'm curious what you think is going to happen with him with his board as i guess you could say that was a big victory in two thousand and nine do you think they're going to side with you you know does that seem like they're leaning in that direction or at least the trends. i mean it was that it's definitely good sign that we got this exemption back when we did and we laid out in probably sixty or seventy pages all of the evidence that kind of shows that this is just improved every possible situation for apple and i think the there's actually a really good argument the video games too because sony used to market their playstation three as an all around computer not just a video game their c.e.o. was even quoted as saying as such and these computers are actually h

. >>> number four, internet's microsoft explorer 8 no longer the most popular web browser.s to google chrome, which now has about 25% of the market. now, we looked at the numbers, and when you go in, it's a little more complicated. when you combine all different versions of internet explorer, microsoft still leads with nearly 40% of the market. there's the good news, microsoft. the bad news, of course, is your market share used to be 90%. now the anti-trust eye turns on google. >>> it has been 133 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? ratings agency fitch says france gets to keep its aaa rating for now. they revised its outlook on the country from negative to stable. if france were downgraded, it could have a big impact on the european debt crisis. a lot of people say their situation is a lot worse than the united states, so, hmm, shady or not. >>> radioactive material from russia. the kind that can only be obtained from a nuclear reactor was found today in an airline passenger's luggage in moscow. the discovery was made in moscow

this interface uses microsoft's bi perhapsng - raw-microsoft b quarksing to find the information you'reooking for. it will bring the results from your in the vr, on demand, netflix, youtube and other content on the web. it also has a live tv. a another way to think about this is that all of your id to take is in one box. the new interface will be available two x box users connected to the internet through a download this week. penn and other news, i am giving away copies of the hot new video game by lucas art galago star wars 3. with over 20 story based missions and for the bonus level spanning the entire era, this new game will allow fans to explore in this league. it is the most action had little game yet. for your chance to win a copy logged into kron4.com look for my tech page. >>justine: also this morning the european union's antitrust watchdog is investigating whether apple in five major publishing houses in the agreement publishers set a price and retailers took a cut from the profits. we will take a quick break on the kron4 morning news yes, your eyes are not deceiving you it is