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Gates tries to win over Windows security skeptics

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On February 15, 2006, 4:09 PM EST

Bill Gates has laid out a broad agenda for better security on the Internet, and has answered criticisms about Windows OS security. Countering the charge that Windows security is merely "bolted on, not built in," Gates claims that Microsoft has shifted its focus to being very security oriented in recent years. He made the case that with Vista, the next version of Windows, security has been pretty much the primary concern when it came to design.

"If you took the investment we've made in this next version of Windows, security would jump out as the thing we've spent the most time on," Gates said.

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PanicX
on February 15, 2006
5:31 PM
Talk is cheap. I'm sure Bill could babble on all day about the different aspects of security improvements. Until the end result shows something different, I can only assume its all the same.

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DragonMaster
on February 15, 2006
6:02 PM
In the first 2 weeks of the IE7 B2 release there were already security holes...

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