Microsoft have been making many changes of late - starting with the publicity of their OpenSource participation, where they have elected to use CodePlex as their project hosting, where they claim that they do not control, review, revise, endorse or distribute the projects or the code that is used within. The Wiki they are using to promote these services is fairly user-friendly, and RSS feeds can be found on every page.

If OpenSouce technologies and Microsoft was not surprising enough for an opening paragraph to any statement, things get even stranger when visiting their Hacking blog, which may only consist of a single post introducing new visitors, but nonetheless seems genuine enough in consideration of the fact that it is hosted at MSDN:

Microsoft employs some of the best hackers in the world and actively recruits them and develops them.  They work on all kinds of projects, whether it be in development, research, testing, management and of course security. At his or her core, a true hacker is someone who is curious and wants to learn how systems work.  This can and of course at Microsoft is done in an ethical, legal manner.  We employ “white hat hackers” who spend their time pen-testing and code reviewing applications and software looking for weaknesses and vulnerabilities so that others don’t once we’ve released that code into the wild.