For the rest of this month, no one at Microsoft will be working on new bells and whistles for the company's flagship Windows software.
Instead, 7,000 programmers have been directed to scour Windows code for bugs and security holes.
The unusual hiatus was set in motion by Chairman Bill Gates' Jan. 15 directive making security the software giant's No. 1 priority.
The company immediately began cycling Windows programmers and managers through two days of training based on the book Writing Secure Code by Microsoft security specialists Michael Howard and David Leblanc.
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