Microsoft's stream processing engine boosts Bing, Azure services

A streaming analytics engine developed by Microsoft Research is giving advertisers on the company’s Bing Web search service more timely analysis on how their ad campaigns are faring, according to the company.The streaming analytics engine, called Trill, can process data at two to four orders of magnitude faster than today’s typical streaming engines, Microsoft said. The company plans to expand its use to other Microsoft computing services as well.Trill functionality could be of interest t