Being the number one software company in the world may make
Microsoft very powerful, but it also makes it very vulnerable.
Almost every month, there's news about a hacker attack or virus
attacks. Last week, there was even a source code leak. Nothing
is left untouched, whether it's Windows NT or its browser
Internet Explorer. Not surprisingly, Microsoft is on its toes
guarding whatever it can, for as long as it can. The security
group within Microsoft is aware of the threats and launched a
"trustworthy computing" initiative a few years ago to promote
privacy, security. Many people are reluctant to entrust today's
computer systems with their personal information, such as
financial and medical records, because they are increasingly
concerned about the security and reliability of these systems,
which they view as posing significant societal risk. "If
computing is to become truly ubiquitous—and fulfill the immense
promise of technology—we will have to make the computing
ecosystem sufficiently trustworthy that peop