The company has carried out 1,500 tests at customer premises, and found that the lack of logs would make it very difficult for the majority of them to respond to security scares, or abuse inside the company.
Microsoft plans to introduce a news aggregation service for web logs and to develop a social networking product, a company executive said on Friday. This technology would permit visitors to ask questions such as "What's the highest mountain?
With the advent of the blog, however, Microsoft's corporate communications have become vastly more decentralised, Pryor said, with about 1,000 Microsoft employees maintaining largely unregulated web logs.
Though Google will not have access to users' personal information on their desktop, the search tool will make personal files, including email and AOL chat logs, viewable on their web browser within seconds.
Silicon.com sister site ZDNet UK's figures show that since the beginning of this year there has been an increase in the percentage of site visitors using a Mozilla browser. In February around nine per cent of site visitors were using a Mozilla...
Fyodor said he thought the FBI wanted access to his Web logs to investigate malicious hackers. The creator of the famous hacking tool Nmap is being hounded by the FBI for copies of web server log data from his Web site Insecure.org.