Microsoft Focus on Secure Software
Yahoo | at | by Mike
On this sprawling corporate campus that is the heartland of personal computing, 9,000 elite Microsoft employees have gone back to school. Stung by a chorus of critics who said that its software code was increasingly buggy and vulnerable to attack, Microsoft began sending its programmers to a special course in writing secure software. And it ordered them to stop creating new programs until they had painstakingly re-examined the millions of lines of Windows operating system software for potential vulnerabilities.
Two months later, Microsoft is still re-examining its code and its attitudes toward software development. The shift in focus began early in February, when the company held a dozen half-day training sessions for its programmers, about 1,000 at a time.