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Microsoft has awarded $13.7 million to security researchers who have reported vulnerabilities over the last 12 months through 15 bug bounty programs, between July 1st, 2019, and June 30th, 2020.

This represents more than three times the amount awarded during the previous year when researchers earned a total of $4.4 million in Microsoft bug bounty awards according to the annual Microsoft Bug Bounty Program retrospective published on the Microsoft Security Response Center blog.

Microsoft paid almost $14M in bounties over the last 12 months

 

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We've created this video to thank the people who joined the collaborative effort to develop our new Microsoft icon system. Our mission was to create a beautiful, moving, coherent icon system, and each discipline added its expertise to the process. The resulting One Microsoft icon design language is unique to Microsoft and reflects our brand personality.

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Microsoft buys speech recognition firm Nuance in a $16 billion deal

The deal will give Microsoft a foothold in health-care technology

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WSJ News Exclusive | Bill Gates Left Microsoft Board Amid Probe Into Prior Relationship With Staffer

Some Microsoft directors began an investigation in 2019 into a woman’s allegations of a prior sexual relationship with Bill Gates. His spokeswoman says his decision to leave the board in 2020 wasn’t related to the matter.

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Microsoft has officially entered the most elite of clubs: corporations with a market value exceeding $2 trillion.

Microsoft reaches a $2 trillion market cap

Microsoft has officially entered the most elite of clubs: corporations with a market value exceeding $2 trillion.

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Singh found an RCE (or Remote Code Execution) bug in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform that comes with severe security impact. The details of the bug haven't been revealed publicly yet.

Self-taught techie girl wins Rs 22 lakh from Microsoft to fix security issue - Times of India

A 20-year-old self-taught cybersecurity analyst named Aditi Singh has won a Microsoft Azure bug bounty of $30,000 (roughly over Rs 22 lakh). Singh fou

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