Microsoft focuses on security
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
Microsoft spent the past week touting the new graphics, storage and communications features to come in the next Windows. But the product's fate in the marketplace may ultimately depend on something much less glamorous.
The company, plagued in recent years by viruses that infiltrate flaws in Windows, is promising fewer bugs and new levels of security in Longhorn, the next generation of the operating system, unveiled publicly at a Microsoft conference here this week.