Saturday, August 12, 2006
A Vista of Change at Microsoft?
"Microsoft is going to great lengths to undertake damage control measures and mend the bad reputation it has earned in the security world. It has opened up Vista, its next generation Windows operating system, to 3,000 security professionals at the Black Hat computer security conference, inviting them to find security holes in the OS.
The software giant has followed a completely different approach to the way Vista was conceived and crafted. Instead of focusing on adding more and more new features and applications, the company’s software engineers are being trained to think like hackers. Ferret out all the possible ways the code can be exploited to cause security breaches, seems to be the new motto of Microsoft.
The company has also appointed a team of security experts who have the power to block shipments of all Vista-related products if they don’t meet stringent security tests. Will The Great Wall of Microsoft succeed in rebuilding the titan’s security reputation? Time will tell.
Key phrase, "Time will tell."
