Jeff Reintjes, Kevin Hao, Carinne Rawlins

Background• 1975 in Redmond, WA• 3rd most successful start-up company ever• Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen

Information• IP address• Whether or not a human or computer is

using Bing’s search engine• Facebook information (posts, pictures,

interest)• Purchases• Search histories

Value on Information• Microsoft and Bing work hard to protect

your personal information• Stored on databases SQL and Cosmos

• Credible companies can access it• MSIT is the primary protector of personal

information

Hardware• Comes from Dell and HP• Cost between $1,000 to $2,000 per

server• Employees have their company• Laptops• Tablets• Phones• Company equipment is either Windows,

Lenovo, or Acer

Software

• Microsoft 2012

• Windows 8 and 8.1

• Microsoft SQL

• Cosmos

Network: With Customers

Users from Bing.com

Web

Crawler

Index

Search

Results

Network: Employees• In the same corporate network

o Emails and other communicationo Anything saved in the server is all in the corporate

network o Microsoft alias to sign ino Private network for different data centerso Different centers require proper credentials

• Sharepoint o Collaborating softwareo Connect with employees across the enterpriseo Store, sync, share infoo Allow IT departments to manage cost, risk and their

time

Network: IT• Outlook servers for IM • Written codes are also stored in servers• Developers go to those servers and examine

code so everyone has the consistent copy • Everyone can connect and modify same

document• Access granted to those who have the need,

engineers, or the server personnel

IT/IS Positions• Microsoft information technology (MSIT)

• In charge of the things like security for their computers

• Required to get certain updates periodically

• In charge of firewalls, antivirus software, installation of windows and copying other images to hard drive

• If computer has problems you can contact them

Use of the Web

• Usually there are about an average of 2-5 million search results

• Images section: categories and subcategories like famous people, animals, and nature

• Videos section: YouTube, Hulu, ABC news, and Dailymotion

• Map section: is mainly used for navigation to business places, national parks, or anywhere that has an address

• News section: recent or significance in the US and the world

• Advertisements: can put your business on Bing and make it relevant depending on how much money you put in the website 

Security and Privacy• MSIT

• Responsible for the security for their computers• Hackers

• Try to take down or overload the system: they block requests

• Know the IP Address• Customer Privacy

• If you go to the settings of your Internet browser, you can block cookies, traffic levels, popups, and delete history 

• Private browsing mode• Algorithms to detect and block spam/malicious

websites from coming up in search results• Trojan horse virus

Recommendations/Evaluations

• While security algorithms detect malicious websites they don’t block all of them

• Proper credentials to access security systems • More relevant search results