Historically, many IS Security practitioners would have argued that Microsoft did not take security as seriously as they would like.

However on the 15th of January 2002 Bill Gates sent his “We can and must do better” memo on trustworthy computing to all Microsoft staff. In the memo Bill told his staff that security was now their top priority. ”...when we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security.”

Peter O’Dowd is a Windows Server MVP for Exchange Server. He is a well known and respected figure worldwide and often trains Microsoft consultants and trainers. Over the past two years he has spent a lot of his time writing content for Microsoft. He particularly specialises in developing labs and virtual environments.

In this presentation Peter outlines how far Microsoft has come along the journey laid out in that historical memo.

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