For critics of Microsoft Corp.'s software, 2003 was a very good year. The appearance of the Slammer and Blaster worms was evidence—if any were necessary—that things had gone badly awry at the Redmond, Wash., software giant.
In articles over the days and weeks that followed, security experts and even the company's customers took Microsoft to task for issuing too many patches and doing too little to make them easy to deploy.
Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates' year-old Trustworthy Computing initiative had failed, experts concluded.
Today, many of those security experts have changed their tune and now say that Microsoft's commitment to improving security, which began in earnest with the Trustworthy Computing memo, has begun to pay dividends.
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