Microsoft to Focus on Security

Anonymous Minion writes: "The Associated Press is reporting that Bill Gates announced to employees Wednesday a major strategy shift across all its products to emphasize security and privacy over new capabilities. In e-mail to employees, Gates referred to the new philosophy as "Trustworthy Computing" and called it the "highest priority". Gates said the new emphasis was "more important than any other part of our work."" People criticized Microsoft for treating security breaches as a public relations problem, so Bill Gates sent this email out to the Associated Press to prove them wrong. (rimshot!) Meanwhile, Richard Smith notes that the Globally Unique Identifier in every installation of Windows Media Player allows websites to universally track users, and Microsoft does not consider it a security problem.

Comments

timing?

[cgenman]

Hmm... Now that basically all of our code is developed and systems are embedded in concrete... let's try to secure this, shall we?

Maybe they should have thought of this BEFORE they rewrote the OS?

Re:If..

[AnalogBoy]

AOL/TW is, IMHO, a bigger threat now. They control major gateways to information, and can readily manipulate news and, in turn, ideas. THATS danger.

Objectiveness is key.

(AOL-TW-Microsoft-Oracle-KrogerCorp: All your neeeds. Period. If we don't make it, you don't need it. Sit, and Vegitate.)

thought of the day:
Do you think for yourself, or do you just think you think for yourself?

Here's what this means...

[Polo]

Robert X. Cringely has already predicted that this would happen in this article. An excerpt:

Microsoft wants to replace TCP/IP with a proprietary protocol -- a protocol owned by Microsoft -- that it will tout as being more secure.