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Windows is safer than you think

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Microsoft Corp. launched a trust-building initiative on Thursday designed to show its commitment and progress to date in making its frequently attacked Windows computer operating system more secure from hackers. Microsoft, which is moving increasingly into the territory of specialist security software companies such as McAfee Inc. (NYSE:MFE - news) and Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC - news), said it planned a string of product launches designed to combat cybercrime. The world’s biggest software company said it planned to release a preliminary, or beta, version by the end of this year of new software to protect corporate computers running Windows against viruses, worms and other attacks. “It’s a unified product. You don’t have to pick whose anti-virus solution you think is the best,” Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told a news conference in Munich. “The threats we see do need more than secure software.”

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Comments (4)

tuxchick ·
fave quote:

"Culture shift: Microsoft has battled for years against the perception that its software is not secure. It also presented data on Thursday which it said showed Microsoft was safer than rival open-source operating system Linux. "

Wow! That's impressive. I'm switching right now! Sheesh, dumb ole Linux doesn't have anti-spyware apps, or 30 commercial firms producting add-on security products. We are so being left out of the party. I guess that seat at the grownup's table is getting further out of reach.

hkwint ·
Look at it from the bright side:

They finally agree their old Windozes were crap full of bugs.
AnonymousCoward ·
hkwint: those old installations are their biggest competitors. Microsoft always badmouths their competitors.
tadelste Story submitter ·
AC: Remarkable insight.

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