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 Icq: 76958435 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 15:22:25 +1100 From: Samantha <samhowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: winmail.dat Type: application/ms-tnef Size: 4180 bytes Desc: URL: <http://linux-speakup.org/pipermail/speakup/attachments/20020120/d489fcd8/attachment.bin>