Given the numerous security issues Microsoft has faced, this at least points to an improvement in the situation. However, Kathleen Hogan will have to be held to these statements over the coming year.

Tom Warren writes in ‘Every Microsoft employee is now being judged on their security work’ for theverge.com

Kathleen Hogan, Microsoft’s chief people officer, has outlined what the company expects of employees in an internal memo obtained by The Verge. “Everyone at Microsoft will have security as a Core Priority,” says Hogan. “When faced with a tradeoff, the answer is clear and simple: security above all else.”

The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.