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Spammers constantly mutate emails to avoid detection. Microsoft Research applied how-to-fight spam principles to help spot fragmented mutations in the HIV virus, helping in the search for a HIV vaccine.

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan and Microsoft Research released a paper titled An Untold Story of Middleboxes in Cellular Networks in which they reveal why and how cellular service is both sub-optimal and insecure.

How did they do it? They developed a tool called NetPiculet, which uses intelligent measurement to probe...

Most fuzz-testing tools use the blackbox approach of throwing random inputs at a program without knowledge of the code.

For the last two years, Microsoft has used a whitebox fuzz-testing method developed by Microsoft Research to reduce security flaws in its Windows x86 software.

Cyber Cynic: "...Microsoft's future might best be served in releasing its own version of Linux that he's a Linux fan.

Wrong, this prophet of Windows doom and gloom was Keith Curtis, a former Microsoft Research staffer. Could he be right?

I think the answer is yes and no."

Network World: "A lot of open source advocates like to rage against the machine at Microsoft, but when a former Microsoft Research employee says that Windows 7 won't stop Linux from market domination, that's an opinion to note."

Why can't a Web browser be more like an operating system? That's a question being investigated with "Gazelle," an ongoing project at Microsoft Research.

A team consisting of Microsoft Research personnel and university staff members has demonstrated a potentially more secure Web browser called Gazelle.

Wolfram Schulte introduces us to the Research in Software Engineering (RiSE) group.

The RiSE group will start publishing weekly videos on Channel9.

The videos will not only describe tools or technologies the researchers are working on, but they will also explain how the tools work through 'classroom' videos.

Screencast announcement at Channel9.
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