Old Code in Windows is Security Threat
Microsoft will more quickly retire old code in its Windows operating system and other software as a result of the company`s four-month-old “trustworthy computing” initiative, the company`s lead bug basher said in an interview. The revelation follows last week`s warning that a serious vulnerability in Microsoft`s Internet Explorer occurred in the software supporting a decade-old protocol that has rarely been used since the World Wide Web became popular. Full Story