Microsoft Earns Patching Praise from IT Execs

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Microsoft Corp. may take the most heat on security vulnerabilities, but other software vendors need to catch up when it comes to dealing with flaws found in their products, according to users and analysts interviewed last week.

“Their biggest problem now is trying to get past all of the negative legacy perceptions,” said Hugh McArthur, director of information systems security at Chantilly, Va.-based Online Resources Corp., which offers online banking and bill payment services to the financial industry. McArthur added that he would give Microsoft “an A for effort and a B+ for execution” on security issues.