Windows Security

2 recent articles on Eweek talks about promising efforts from Microsoft and of course new Windows version namely Windows Vista in security field.
In the newer version, one will be able to work in Limited account and do administrative works by enterting password whenever will be asked for. (similar to putting root password in linux for security reasons) This feature has been named "User Account Protection".
A lot of advanced secure features in IE7, windows firewall and antispyware products will be available too. Checkout some of them here

"Microsoft has tools that will be in Visual Studio 2005 to do static code analysis," says Ozzie whose Groove Networks is now part of Microsoft. Even Microsoft is offering tools such as PreFast, Prefix and FXCop to weed out code vulnerabilities, and Microsoft developers cannot check in their code into the corporate code tree without running it through these tools, Gates said. Gates even said that Microsoft Research, which turned out the Microsoft code security tools, is "the best investment the company ever made,".
Checkout Gates and Microsoft steps against hackers and exploits.