"SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. demonstrated new security features of its Windows operating system and Chairman Bill Gates said the company has made progress in its battle against computer worms and viruses.
"Over the last two years, I think we've made a lot of progress," Gates told attendees on Tuesday at the RSA computer security conference in San Francisco, since the company launched its Trustworthy Computing initiative in 2002.
In addition to worms and viruses hitting Microsoft-based systems, the world's largest software company has also suffered from vulnerabilities in Windows that allowed hackers to potentially compromise or damage computers and systems.
"Everything we're doing has been impacted" by security problems, said Gates, who is also Microsoft's chief software architect. "My basic view is I'm very optimistic, but there is a lot of work ahead of us." "
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Source: Reuters
Feb 24, 2004, 10:42 PM
