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 companyís 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 donít meet stringent security tests.
Will The Great Wall of Microsoft succeed in rebuilding the titanís
security reputation? Time will tell.
Key phrase, “Time will tell.”
