EC Watching Microsoft Security Moves

Rob writes "The European Commission is looking into Microsoft Corp's recent moves into the desktop security market, according to Symantec Corp, one of the companies that stand to lose the most if Microsoft leverages its monopoly to compete. We've not filed any official complaint," a Symantec spokesperson said. "We've responded to a request for information from the European Commission... we were not proactive, they came to us." Microsoft announced last week that it will offer an enterprise desktop security package comprising antivirus, antispyware, firewall and centralized administration. That's in addition to its OneCare consumer offering, currently in beta."

Comments

Re:This is just laughable

[AviLazar]

How about modding the parent for what it really is, overrated. As time has proven (i.e. FireFox) it is not that MS is inept, it is that the most popular program has more people hacking it. People said that IE sucked, and FireFox was the answer...now we are finding out that FireFox has a lot of exploits available to discovered.

Be fair and act intelligent, instead of being a "Yes (wo)man" Complex programs are prone to have loopholes that people can exploit; it's a amazing in the first place to get a 300+ meg program to work, and do it with a ton of other programs.

Re:It's right and it wrong

[ScentCone]

Why is it wrong for them to profit from selling a system that works for people? One of the regular claims from the Mac people is that they've chosen an OS that doesn't have vulnerabilities. Isn't Apple profiting from selling a package that doesn't need Symantec and McAfee et al to even exist?

Your proposal (an operating mode that doesn't allow users to execute anything an-approved) already exists, and corporate users of MS products use it every day. Of course it can be annoying if you're a power user, but plenty of power users get caught by malware even when they think they're being very careful. To sum up: your suggestion has already been implemented. Further, the profiting you're complaining about is also being enjoyed by Apple, Red Hat, and anyone else that puts together something well-rounded (security-wise) for end users to just... use.