Microsoft can’t throw away old Windows code, but the company’s research under Project Verona is aiming to make Windows 10 more secure with its recent work on integrating Mozilla-developed Rust for low-level Windows components. The company recently revealed that its trials with Rust over C and C++ to remove insecure code from Windows had hit its targets. But why did Microsoft do this?
The company has partially explained its security-related motives for experimenting with Rust, but hasn’t gone into much detail about the reasons for its move.
[Source: ZDNet]
