Microsoft put security first.

Microsoft has put security at the top of its priority list, which has brought delays to planned services.

Microsoft has put security at the top of its priority list, which has brought delays both to planned services.

The company's strategy has been to put security first in order to win the trust of computer users.

The software giant earlier this year announced that its new initiative, called Trustworthy Computing, has called on all of Microsoft's programmers to focus on security in all of their work.

One of the first products to result from Trustworthy Computing is Palladium, the code name for a new software and hardware architecture that will be available in future releases of Windows.

Some of the features of Palladium include user authentication and well as authentication of whom you are communicating with on your PC, data protection, virus protection and safeguards for user privacy.

"The development of Palladium is still in its infancy," said John Manferdelli, general manager of the Windows business unit that is building Palladium.

He added, "While we realize there are many more constituencies that need to be brought into the process, we have every reason to believe this is a technological breakthrough that the industry can really get behind."