News Security Flaws Rankle Microsoft

Also from Wired this AM:

SEATTLE -- Microsoft's offer this week of cash bounties for informants who help it collar virus-writers reflects more than just an escalation of the war on those who would exploit the dominant power in software.

The campaign reveals just how much of a threat to Microsoft's bottom line security flaws now represent.

When the Blaster worm hobbled hundreds of thousands of computers around the world in August -- only the latest plague to exploit a flaw in Windows operating systems -- it also hurt Microsoft's ability to book new contracts with corporate customers.

For the first time, it seemed, flaws in Microsoft's software were translating into flaws in the company's business model.

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About damn time if you ask me!