The tarnishing of its once-platinum reputation began long before June, when a U.S. judge found Microsoft guilty of violating anti-trust laws by leveraging its operating system monopoly to take over other parts of the software business.

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Urge countries to do as we did with our savings-and- loan debacle: Set up government entities to take over bad loans from the stricken banking system, and make individual depositors whole.

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Now, some of that is unavoidable because they really do need to strengthen -- you know, the banking sector was in bad shape and it was over-leveraged and we really did need to take some steps to shore up the banking system.

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Finding threats that are expertly concealed and utilize multiple steps to take over a system, takes a three stage approach that combines aspects of machine learning and a cloud-based knowledge repository.

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