Microsoft security problems
p2pnet.net News:- Microsoft incursions in the security application arena make it likely that Bill and the Boyz may soon again be defending their business practises to government regulators.
So believes eWeek saying in Europe, where Microsoft is still at odds with legislators over its 2004 antitrust settlement, “regulators have already begun warning the firm against any efforts aimed at thinning competition in security market via the addition of security measures to Vista, the company’s next-generation operating system, which is due out in November 2006.
“And in the United States, rivals in the security applications market, including segment leaders and longtime Microsoft partners McAfee and Symantec, have begun publicly expressing similar concerns over the software giant’s future business plans as it builds a wide variety of security features into the OS.”
And it’s, “deja vu all over again, as essentially these arguments over security and Microsoft’s use of its position in the operating system market to enter a new space are the same things we heard disputed in the company’s earlier antitrust battles,” the story has anti-trust expert Melissa H. Maxman saying.
McAfee says Microsoft’s move to “lock down Windows Vista’s technical core” could “hamstring” it and other security software vendors by keeping them from accessing a key element of the upcoming operating system, says The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
But Microsoft disputes this, “calling the precaution in some advanced Windows Vista versions an important protection against attack,” says the story.
Long term, the Windows core “needs to be tamper-proof,” it quotes Stephen Toulouse, senior product manager in Microsoft’s Security Technology Unit as saying.
Also See:
eWeek – Microsoft Security Antitrust Concerns Heat Up, October 3, 2006
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Limited Vista access hurts security effort, McAfee says, October 3, 2006
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October 4th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
“…an important protection against attack,”
Gee, who does that sound like?