Microsoft 'Trustworthy Computing' Turns 10

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 13, 2012 @08:50AM from the eat-your-cake-at-your-desk dept.

gManZboy writes "Bill Gates fired off his famous Trustworthy Computing memo to Microsoft employees on Jan. 15, 2002, amid a series of high-profile attacks on Windows computers and browsers in the form of worms and viruses like Code Red and 'Anna Kournikova.' The onslaught forced Gates to declare a security emergency within Microsoft, and halt production while the company's 8,500 software engineers sifted through millions of lines of source code to identify and fix vulnerabilities. The hiatus cost Microsoft $100 million. Today, the stakes are much higher. 'TWC Next' will include a focus on cloud services such as Azure, the company says."

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Re:Microsoft Succeeded by Sarten-X · 2012-01-13 09:15 · Score: 3, Interesting

I know replying to myself is bad form, but after posting I looked up the stock growth for Microsoft and its competitors. Over the past 10 years, Microsoft is more stagnant than Slashdot (the site, not Geeknet as a company).

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Re:Microsoft Succeeded by haruchai · 2012-01-13 10:24 · Score: 3, Interesting

John Smith? Around here we prefer to call him Anonymous Coward.

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