About this tag
Discussions tagged with online services on WindowsForum.com cover security vulnerabilities in Microsoft-hosted services, such as CVE-2026-62835, which involves information disclosure in online services. Other threads address Microsoft 365 price increases tied to AI investments, the Microsoft Bounty Program and Azure DevOps Bounty program for securing online services, and general privacy and security practices when using online services. The tag also appears in MSRC blog posts about how Microsoft recognizes researchers for online services submissions and in user discussions about using Tor Browser to protect privacy while accessing online services. These conversations reflect ongoing concerns about security, privacy, and cost in cloud-based and online service environments.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    CVE-2026-62835: Microsoft Flags Online Services Data Disclosure

    Microsoft has published CVE-2026-62835, an Online Services Information Disclosure Vulnerability, creating a fresh security-triage item for organizations that rely on Microsoft-hosted services, cloud-connected Windows environments, or applications integrated with Microsoft identity and service...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Price Hikes & AI Tactics Spark User Backlash and Alternatives

    Here’s a summary and analysis of "I’ve had it with Microsoft" by Paris Marx, as seen on Disconnect: Main Points: Price hikes and AI funding: Paris Marx criticizes Microsoft for significantly raising prices on existing Microsoft 365 customers to fund its investments in generative AI. For...
  3. News

    Microsoft Bounty Program Updates: Faster bounty review, faster payments, and higher rewards

    Link Removed In 2018 The Microsoft Bounty Program awarded over $2,000,000 to encourage and reward external security research in key technologies to protect our customers. Building on that success, we are excited to announce a number of improvements in our bounty programs to better serve the...
  4. News

    Announcing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Bounty program

    The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) is pleased to announce the launch of the Link Removed program, a program dedicated to providing rock-solid security for our DevOps customers. Starting January 17, 2019, we’re excited to offer rewards up to US$20,000 for eligible vulnerabilities in...
  5. Axel PC

    Privacy and Security Discussion

    What do to protect your identity online? What's your threat model? How did you come up with your threat model? What are your primary concerns with your information being online and the online services and apps you use? How do you protect yourself online? Do you use Gmail or Protonmail? Do you...
  6. News

    Inside the MSRC– The Monthly Security Update Releases

    For the second in this series of blog entries we want to look into which vulnerability reports make it into the monthly release cadence. It may help to start with some history. In September 2003 we made a change from a release anytime approach to a mostly predictable, monthly release cadence...
  7. News

    Inside the MSRC – How we recognize our researchers

    This is the first of a series of blog entries to give some insight into the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) business and how we work with security researchers and vulnerability reports. The Microsoft Security Response Center actively recognizes those security researchers who help us...
  8. Axel PC

    Tor Browser Experiment

    So just thought I'd share that I'm going to use Tor browser for 30 days on my laptop and phone :nerves: I want to see if I can do all the usual web surfing and use the same services I'd normally use with Firefox of Chrome. And maybe I can post my questions about any problems I might encounter...
  9. News

    Office 365 security researchers: Double your bounties March-May 2017

    Microsoft strives to protect our customers and we’re constantly improving our security posture to meet their needs. We realize the desire of researchers and customers to security test our services to ensure they can trust us and our solutions. We also believe that if a researcher informs us of a...
  10. News

    Microsoft Bounty Programs Announce Expansion – Bounty for Microsoft OneDrive

    At Microsoft, we continue to add new properties to our security bug bounty programs to help keep our customer’s secure. Today, I’m pleased to announce the addition of Microsoft OneDrive to the Microsoft Online Services Bug Bounty Program. This addition further incentivizes security researchers...
  11. News

    Microsoft Bounty Programs Expansion - Bounty for Defense, Authentication Bonus, and RemoteApp

    I am very pleased to be releasing additional expansions of the Link Removed. Please stop by the Microsoft Networking Lounge at Black Hat, August 5-6, to learn more about these programs; or, visit Link Removed. We are raising the Bounty for Defense maximum from $50,000 USD to $100,000 USD. I am...
  12. Mike

    Cloud Storage Just Became Cheap Overnight

    This week, the horse left the proverbial barn, ladies and gentlemen, and now Microsoft, Google, Apple, Dropbox, Box.net, and a large number of other companies are competing in an arena that will help you backup and synchronize your files, forever, if you so desire, online, and at the lowest...
  13. Mike

    Windows 8 Windows 8: A platform for selling Windows Live and branded content?

    I have reserved a great deal of time not passing judgement on Windows 8, but so far I am not as enthused as, perhaps, I should be. This is not to say that I have given up on Windows 8, but for me, the Consumer Preview just isn't doing it. The main problem, of course, for me, and I suspect many...
  14. JMH

    Google "Places" drops outside customer reviews

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  15. A

    Windows 7 Free Translator - Google Translate Client

    Link Removed due to 404 Error Google Translate Client is a language translator application by utilizing the service from Link Removed. By using this application, you can translate any word or sentence from any language around the world into English or vice versa. Google Translate supports...
  16. cybercore

    Microsoft business suite wins federal certification

    Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Services-Federal product has Link Removed due to 404 Error from the federal government under the Federal Information Security Management Act, a bit of news that would have meant nothing to more than a handful of folks who follow the arcana of such things...
  17. reghakr

    Good-bye Google Gears, hello HTML5

    Google's decision to transition its applications to Web standards offers telling insight into the HTML5 standardization process Google technologies are known for their extended beta test periods -- so much so that when the search giant actually ships a finished product it's front page news. But...
  18. cybercore

    Communications channel

    :l: Link Removed - online service for securing your messages in an easy way. All you need is only to enter a message text of your message and encryption password. The password will be used for both encryption and decryption. The system will encrypt your message using strong encryption...
  19. A

    Windows 7 Computer and network cable installation

    Hi all! My name is Ann and I just joined the forum, I’m also a new comer to computer and network cable installation. I’m still trying to understand it all and our little company (just me and my husband) is still navigating through all the different ways to approach the industry. It’s a tough...
  20. Mike

    NetFlix Customers with PS3 No Longer Need Disc

    While completely unrelated to both personal computers as we know them, here is a good one for NetFlix subscribers who rely on their Playstation 3 console to stream content via the NetFlix "instant streaming disc" to watch Internet-based movies. This just came down the pipeline: You no longer...