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In addition to job loss from round two in the Microsoft employment cull last week, several groups within the company were disbanded and consolidated. One of those, the Trustworthy Computing group, I reported on Monday. A piece of what this group has been responsible for since 2002 is ensuring Microsoft products remain secure through updates and patches. Of course, as we know, the patches Microsoft has been releasing of late have seen diminished quality and have caused more widely reported problems than seemingly ever before. This has caused many organizations to alter their patching policies, extending the time to deploy by weeks in some cases. For critical security matters, and software exploits reported in the wild and advancing, this is clearly not a good situation. Some have gone as far as calling the security group at Microsoft the UnTrustworthy Computing group. And, with news last week that the group has been disbanded and assimilated by other, existing groups within Microsoft, customers are now wondering if being trustworthy is still a strong focus for Microsoft and how the company will be able to keep its products secure in an intensified, more dangerous security landscape.
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