SEATTLE - Faced with a mounting crisis over security flaws in Microsoft's software, Chief Executive Steve Ballmer acknowledged Thursday that the company's current system of patches is insufficient and that the Windows operating system will need to be modified next year to fend off hackers. Ballmer spoke to a New Orleans gathering of Microsoft partners, trying to address growing frustrations with the security vulnerabilities in Windows that have allowed costly and damaging attacks on computers worldwide. The technology that would modify Windows will be available as a free download to users of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 by June, said Mike Nash, vice president of the company's security business unit.
Posted by Editor at October 10, 2003 10:35 AM