Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an About-Face

Re:Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an Abo... by renownedmedia on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @01:05PM (#10589513)

> company’s co-founder, Bill Gates, once ordered all of Microsoft engineers to stop writing new code for a month

Source?

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Re:Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an Abo... by mikestew on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @03:58PM (#10590693)

Valentine actually dictated it, but it did actually happen. Brian's mail was something along the lines of, "I'm tired of reading about the latest security vulnerability in the NYT, so...". And I think it was six weeks, not a month.

Source: me, who worked there (in VS, not Windows) at the time.

EDIT: oh, yeah, forgot about the Gates mail. References are buried in this link: http://www.microsoft.com/security/sdl/story/#chapter-1

I stand by the B. Valentine version, just can't find a link.

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Re:Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an Abo... by Garbage on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @01:45PM (#10589815)

This is the closest reference I could find. http://www.cnet.com/news/gates-security-is-top-priority/

I don't have Microsoft source though.

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Re:Microsoft, Once Infested with Security Flaws, Does an Abo... by grub5000 on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @01:33PM (#10589732)

Man this is a well known and often commented fact, but god damn am I having trouble searching for sources and references on this one. Can anyone help out?

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