Microsoft has no plans to follow in the footsteps of Mozilla and Google and pay researchers cash rewards for the bugs that they find in Microsoft s products. A company official said on Thursday that Microsoft was not interested in paying bounties. Mozilla last week said it was raising its bug bounty to $3,000, and Google made a similar move four days later. Microsoft has been using outside researchers to test their software for security flaws on a contract and one-off basis for years now.
Source: https://threatpost.com/microsoft-says-no-paying-bug-bounties-072210/74249/