Microsoft spent $100M on .Net security
ZDNet | at | by Mike
Microsoft's much-publicized security push has cost real money--$100 million of person-hours went into the two-month hiatus in development of .Net server, according to David Thompson, vice president of Microsoft's Windows server products group. Close to 5000 people in the development team spent all of February and March learning security, Thompson told the Microsoft Tech Ed conference in Barcelona. This alone cost Microsoft $100 million, as well as putting back product schedules. Other product development teams will incur similar costs, he said. Issues of security and management are to the fore in Microsoft's .Net server demonstrations at Tech Ed, as Microsoft makes an effort to convince users it "means business". Unlike previous new operating systems from Microsoft, demos of .Net server focus heavily on issues such as authentication and policy administration.