RE: Microsoft May Delay Products to Fix Security

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: "Thomas (Yahoo!)" <thomasroygarner () yahoo com>

[Originally sent on January 24, 2002, cleaning up the queue. -  WK]

Unless MS changes it's policy of "layering software" (i.e., Outlook 2K
is actually eight or nine, separate programs "stitched" together to
run as one giant program (calendar, archive, e-mail, task manager)), I
see that it's going to be EXTREMELY difficult for MS to dig itself out
of the hole that it is in.

They need to redesign from the GROUND up!

Thomas Roy Garner
SETIPRIME ( http://www.setiprime.com )


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http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-000005547jan22.story?coll=la%2Dheadline
s%2Dtechnology

January 22, 2002

Microsoft Corp. may delay some products, including its next version of
Windows for server computers, to improve security, Vice President
Cliff Reeves said Monday.

About 7,000 engineers in the Windows operating system, word-processing
and e-mail product groups are in security training, Reeves said.

That, and the need to fix any security flaws that are found, may
result in delays. Chairman Bill Gates last week sent an e-mail to
employees saying Microsoft must make security a higher priority than
new features.

Microsoft is trying to take customers from rivals such as Sun
Microsystems Inc. with its Windows server software and must improve
security to do that.

[...]



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