Comdex: Microsoft on Trustworthy Computing
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
A panel of Microsoft executives touted the company's achievements in the area of security, but said that consumers should expect a long wait and may need to change their own behavior before the goal of "trustworthy computing," as laid out by Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates, is realized. The informal panel discussion was held at a hotel near the Las Vegas Convention Center where the Comdex industry trade show is under way and featured a number of senior Microsoft executives including Craig Mundie, senior vice president and chief technology officer of Microsoft's advanced strategies and policy.
Speaking about Microsoft's ongoing "Palladium" effort to build hardware and software-based security features into the Windows operating system, Peter Biddie, Palladium product manager, said that the project represented an effort by Microsoft to redesign its operating system from the ground up, with security as an essential component.