Microsoft Kills Off Its Trustworthy Computing Group

An anonymous reader writes Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group is headed for the axe, and its responsibilities will be taken over either by the company's Cloud & Enterprise Division or its Legal & Corporate Affairs group. Microsoft's disbanding of the group represents a punctuation mark in the industry's decades-long conversation around trusted computing as a concept. The security center of gravity is moving away from enterprise desktops to cloud and mobile and 'things,' so it makes sense for this security leadership role to shift as well. According to a company spokesman, an unspecified number of jobs from the group will be cut. Also today, Microsoft has announced the closure of its Silicon Valley lab. Its research labs in Redmond, New York, and Cambridge (in Massachusetts) will pick up some of the closed lab's operations.

Comments

Good

[sexconker]

Trusted computing was always destined to be vaporware. Nobody wanted it.

Mission accomplished

[symbolset]

Now that they have made all their software trustworthy there is no more need for the group, right? Declare victory and go home.

Does this mean....

[Hsien-Ko]

Microsoft products will get easter eggs again?