Symantec Brings Complaint Against MS to EU

linumax writes "Symantec has made a complaint against Microsoft to EC anti-trust regulators over the software giant's entry into the security market. The "informal" complaint allows the Commission to consider whether or not an anti-trust case is merited. The Commission is the executive branch of the European Union (EU)." From the article: "The news comes on the day Microsoft announced plans to begin offering business users an integrated anti-virus and anti-spyware product called Microsoft Client Protection. A beta version of this product is expected to be released by year's end. The company is already offering some customers a beta version of its Windows OneCare consumer security software. At issue is Microsoft's plan to bundle its security software with Windows Vista, the next major version of the Windows operating system due next year."

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Both are crooks

[Anonymous Coward]

Symantec thrives off the existence of viruses (and some people have said symantec has in the past written viruses). A permanent fix to viruses and self replicating programs would be bad for their biz.

M$FT, well they will have no ensure their products are vulnerable if they expect to sell AV and anti keylogger/spyware software.

Bottom line, reminds me of "Alien versus Predator" trailer tagline: "Whoever wins, we lose"!

the poop factor...

[Eggz Factor]

Symantec is clearly crapping it's pants. They have recently been attempting to strike fear of impeding virus doom on the OSX platform, especially since their revenues from that part of the market have dried up significantly. If MS offers a product with hooks into it's OS and attractive bundles, it may very well be game over for Symantec.