Monday, July 17, 2006

Microsoft Hands Vista Over To Hackers

Microsoft has announced plans to attend the Hack in the Box Security Conference 2006, an Asian hackers' conference. What's more, the company intends to bring along Vista. This isn't as strange as it sounds - an increasing number of businesses like to solicit the opinions of security communities (even shady ones) on their new products.

This practice has the potential to save a company's time, money, and reputation. If problems are found in the software before it hits the market, it's considerably cheaper and easier to correct the issue at that point in time. It also saves the need for patches and updates, which are at best a nuisance.

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