Microsoft Gets Help From NSA for Vista Security

An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post is reporting that Microsoft received help from the National Security Agency in protecting the Vista operating system from worms and viruses. The Agency aimed to help as many people as they could, and chose to assist Vista with good reason: the OS still has a 90 percent lock on the PC market, with some 600 million Vista users expected by 2010. From the article: 'The Redmond, Wash., software maker declined to be specific about the contributions the NSA made to secure the Windows operating system ... Microsoft said this is not the first time it has sought help from the NSA. For about four years, Microsoft has tapped the spy agency for security expertise in reviewing its operating systems, including the Windows XP consumer version and the Windows Server 2003 for corporate customers.'"

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The NSA's next task for MS

[dweebzilla]

Perhaps Microsoft will put the NSA to task on figuring out how to get IE compatible with industry standards.

Re:Tax Dollars

[Martin Blank]

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Re:Tax Dollars

[compro01]

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