Trustworthy Computing At One Year

ackthpt writes "One year ago Bill Gates issued forth an email directing the company to work toward Trustworthy Computing, making Microsoft operating systems, applications and services secure and reliable. Where is that effort at today? vnunet has this Q&A with Microsoft security chief Stuart Okin. Slow, steady progress seems to be the result. They've targeted Security, Privacy, Reliability and Business Integrity, but so far have had a go at Privacy. Okin indicates the strategy may take 5 to 15 years, but more immediate milestones are targeted within the next two years and focusing on reducing vulnerabilities in the next version of Windows, rather than attempting to fix 2000 or XP. I'd chalk this up as a frank and honest interview, rather than madly spun, and paints a picture of the massive cat herding effort undertaken."

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Targeting Privacy?

[chill]

Wow, and with this story still on the front page?

This gives me flashbacks to Statistics classes in college. Specifically a problem where a hypothetical bus company wanted to raise prices, but for each increase they lost riders. The result was to curves and the intersection was where the "optimum" result was.

I can envision that same graph in MS, where "security" and "compalints/bad PR" are the two curves...