Microsoft looking ahead -- past security flaws
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
As their annual hardware developers' convention kicked off yesterday, Microsoft executives touted a touchy-feely future of computerized "experiences" -- high-tech homes, offices and automobiles filled with digital music, movies and communications.
Yesterday Microsoft executives conceded that the software giant needs to deal with fundamental issues -- including security -- before it can convince people to invest in futuristic technology.
"If you do all the fundamentals, you don't get a lot of credit," Jim Allchin, who heads Microsoft's Windows division, told the audience of hardware engineers and developers. "If you mess up the fundamentals, you get all the abuse."