  From NetworkWorldFusion: Microsoft to pitch security as 'competitive advantage' Microsoft will pitch security as a "competitive advantage" at its worldwide partner conference in Toronto next week, but it may be a tough sell to attendees who are still waiting for the software maker to deliver on some of last year's security-related promises. Microsoft's second annual Worldwide Partner Conference kicks off Sunday. The three-day event is focused on helping its partners to sell more Microsoft products. Attendees at last year's event, in New Orleans, cheered when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer addressed head-on some of the security challenges the software maker faces and outlined steps it said it would take to address them.
However, Microsoft has yet to deliver on most of the promises Ballmer made. For example, customers are still waiting for a single patching experience and an update to the Software Update Services (SUS) patch management tool, both of which Ballmer said would be out in the first half of 2004, and both of which have been delayed. Read the rest of the urlLink article .. sh0 
