On Jan. 15, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates sent out a companywide e-mail telling his minions to make security their No. 1 priority. Since then, the Colossus of Redmond has hired dozens of new security staffers and put its coders through boot camps on how to build secure software. The June launch of a new initiative dubbed Palladium underscored Microsoft's security ambitions. Palladium is supposed to be a "trusted" computing system. Translation? An operating system that, unlike Windows, is designed from the ground up to enhance security and prevent hack attacks.
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