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A conservative US think tank suggests in an upcoming report that open-source software is inherently less secure than proprietary software.
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.
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