Get your users to care about security and the rest will take care of itself. Oh and if you do figure out how to get them to care, please tell me how you do it!!

Still I have had these concerns of M$ getting into the anti-malware department based on their performance shown in XP patches and updates. M$ did not release the APIs for third party vendors to get their products to work with VISTA till after the OS was already scheduled for commercial site release. They are normally released months in advance. This effectively left a delay where third party could not be seen to compete with M$’s offering until they reprogrammed for the changes required by VISTA.

It came down to EU complaining about M$s policies before the APIs were released. Basically M$ did it at the point of a gun and would have most likely drug its feet as long as possible to prevent the inevitable competition that third party does.

M$ does not do that good a job of covering known security holes as it is. Other than corporate bloat, I have no idea what causes the delays we often see of zero day exploits that don’t see fixes for sometimes months if they come at all.

Webroot themselves conducted these studies. Does that remind you of someone ELSE who doesn’t use independent, unbiased research?