A Microsoft lawsuit, unsealed earlier today, is responsible for causing government raids last Wednesday that lead to the downfall of the world’s biggest spam network, Rustock. Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit used information gained in its 2010 takedown of the Waledac botnet to work with the U.S. Marshals Service in locating and obtaining evidence from five hosting companies in seven U.S. cities. “DCU researchers watched a single Rustock-infected computer send 7,500 spam emails in just 45 minutes – a rate of 240,000 spam mails per day,” said Richard Boscovich, Senior Attorney at the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit,in a blog post....

Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud Gaming, also known as xCloud, has slowly been expanding its reach, starting out as an Android app and recently making its way to PCs and Apple devices via the browser. So far, PC and iOS access has been limited to a few users with invites, but that’s changing today. All Xbox Game Pass Ultimate members can now stream games using practically any modern device. Microsoft says xCloud officially works in Edge, Chrome, and Safari browsers on both desktop and mobile devices, and is currently available in 22 countries....

Remember Windows Movie Maker? It was about as basic video editing software got, but you could at least make some passable content with it. But compared to even that, the current video editing tools built into Windows 10 (and Windows 11, so far) are… underwhelming. But now Microsoft may have finally bought its way to a solution: the company todayannouncedit acquired Clipchamp, a video editing web app that’s far more powerful than anything Windows has offered before....

Update (12/04/2021): Microsoft Microsoft reportedly wants to buy Siri’s AI partner firm Nuance for $16B today that it bought Nuance for $19.7 billion in an all-cash deal. The company said that this acquisition will help it bolster its AI offerings in healthcare, cloud, and office collaboration space. You can read more about the announcementhere. Previous headline: Microsoft reportedly wants to buy Siri’s AI partner firm Nuance for $16B New week, new Microsoft acquisition chatter....

Analyst reports that Microsoft’s nascent Windows Phone platform might capture some 20% of the smartphone market by 2015 are ‘conservative,’according to the company. Today, at an event in Berlin, Microsoft was publicly upbeat about the future prospects of its mobile line, despite a market response that has been uneven thus far. According to the company, it is seeing an “extremely positive response” to its Windows Phone project. Even more, the company sees that trend continuing: “We’re now thinking that this year is a great time to get that momentum accelerated, to reach out to a broader group of customers....