Gates to tout Tablet PCs, security efforts, spam control
crn.com | at | by Mike
Gates & Co. are planning so show off previously unpublicized features of the next release of the tablet operating system, code-named Lonestar. Lonestar, tales of which surfaced earlier this month, is due in the middle of 2004.
Gates is also expected to reaffirm, or re-re-affirm, Microsoft's commitment to security, more than two years into the company's trustworthy computing initiative. Microsoft, which has seen its products targeted by hackers and crackers with seemingly increasing frequency, is seeking to make patch management and application more rational and easier to administer, and its underlying products more impervious to threats. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer again sounded a call to arms around security at Microsoft's worldwide partner conference early last month and then again at the recent Gartner ITXpo.