GATES CALLS FOR 'TRUSTWORTHY COMPUTING'

[caddmannq]

(Excerpt from InfoWorld Scoop 1-17-2002.)

BILL GATES IS getting serious about security.
Microsoft's chairman and chief software architect is
calling on the software giant's 49,000 employees
worldwide to make "trustworthy computing" the
company's highest priority.

"In the past, we've made our software and services more
compelling for users by adding new features and
functionality, and by making our platform richly
extensible," he wrote in a memo to employees dated
Tuesday, which was made available to the media. "We've
done a terrific job at that, but all those great
features won't matter unless customers trust our
software. So now, when we face a choice between adding
features and resolving security issues, we need to
choose security."

HeeHee...this from the man we wouldn't buy a used car from! :P

What it really sounds like to me is that MS will be migrating more "features" out of the OS, and into the "Plus!" pack.

Once Outlook comes in the Plus! pack, the OS gets waaaay more secure.

Amen!

Don't forget MSN Messenger.

Of course I use that at work just to inferiate(sp?) the network admins here, since they didn't give me the job. :P

-W