I hope this works this time.Gates wants 'trustworthy' Microsoft (fwd)

[Shaun Oliver]

with a bit of luck, this will work this time.

-- 
Shaun Oliver

Marriage is a three ring circus:
engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
                -- Roger Price

Email: shauno at goanna.net.au
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Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 15:22:25 +1100
From: Samantha <samhowe at goanna.net.au>
To: shauno at goanna.net.au
Subject: Gates wants 'trustworthy' Microsoft

Microsoft employees should focus on making the company's
products more "trustworthy," said a memorandum by chairman
Bill Gates that circulated company wide on Tuesday. The memo
heralds a major strategy shift for the high-tech giant, which
has suffered a series of setbacks related to the security of
its new Windows XP operating system and other software. "If we
don't do this, people simply won't be willing -- or able -- to
take advantage of all the other great work we do," Gates wrote.
Microsoft's recent focus had been on developing products, but
Gates has ordered that Microsoft workers should stop working
on new operating system software for the month of February.
Microsoft will also send its 7,000 systems programmers to
security training. Soon after Windows XP's launch in the fall,
a serious security hole was found in its Universal Plug and
Play feature, which allows the operating system to recognize
devices that are attached to a computer.


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