Steve Ballmer: Security, security, security!
C|Net | at | by Mike
Little in Steve Ballmer's two years as CEO resembles the scope of the challenge Microsoft embarks upon this month, when the company will go into lockdown mode to conduct a top-to-bottom review of its software code. Call it March Madness, one month early. The unprecedented move follows a company-wide memo that Chairman Bill Gates sent to employees in January, urging Microsoft employees to write more secure software and make customer privacy a priority.
Clearly, the heat is on to fix a software vulnerability that has dogged myriad Microsoft products over the years, a problem brought into sharp relief last summer by the Code Red and Nimda virus attacks.