Microsoft Backs New University Training Initiative

Microsoft announced on Friday that would provide financial backing and resources to train students at the University of Leeds in England to develop and write bug-free software programs. Last year, Microsoft announced its "Trustworthy Computing" initiative to improve its program security applications. This announcement comes on the heels of security complaints that Microsoft's software programs remain vulnerable to hackers and virus attacks. During the past year, Microsoft has trained 11,000 of the code writers, testers and programmers it employs to improve their detection of potential holes in computer source code.

As part of its new initiative, Microsoft will train University of Leeds instructors in bug-testing techniques, which will then become part of the curriculum of specialized classes beginning the first of next year. As a unique part of this initiative, Microsoft has granted University of Leeds all of the intellectual property rights over the materials developed, and will allow it to share with and sell the courseware materials to other universities. Microsoft has also allowed the University to develop the curriculum independently.

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