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Microsoft 'Trustworthy Computing' Turns 10
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 $100 million. Today, the stakes are much higher. 'TWC Next' will include a focus on cloud services such as Azure, the company says."
Since this is Slashdot, I expect the above well-written post to be marked flamebait within 10 minutes, because it dared to speak well of Microsoft.
Not at all. Microsoft shills have taken over /. moderation.
A new user profile with a very fast first pro-MS post about the successes of MS and Windows? Can't possibly be a shill. I'm actually curious whether these people are paid for this stuff or they're just insecure MS employees with nothing better to do.
Like them or not, at least you don't see Google and Apple stooping to these levels.
Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
What a useless article. Keep this crap off slashdot.
Welcome to the Internet.
'$' substitution is used as a handy way to show that the speaker perceives the company in question as more focused in making money, than in the quality of the service or product it offers.
Microsoft qualifies, so fuck off, troll.
No, they are interested in using any tactics to lockup the desktop monopoly. This is one of those, apparently so is paying you.