If someone comes up with a super-hot idea, we'll have a bunch of researchers and developers who can take those ideas, get them prototyped and see if there's a real, healthy business there.

We think we need to evolve the platform and development story to keep pace with developers who want to build these experiences that reach across the Internet. The more applications, the more value to the user and the more people gravitate to our platform.

We investigated this report,

We're disappointed. As soon as they went public with the tool that exploits the issue, they put millions of IIS servers in jeopardy. We would rather to have had this fixed before they disclosed this problem to the world.

Once you sell it, it's sold. Anything that would let the previous owner come back and make demands is not something we'd agree to.

The government is clearly as adept a PR machine as there ever was one.