Anti-malware Vendors Stare Down Microsoft Threat

Captain Rose writes "Matt Hines at eWEEK has stepped up to report the other side of the story CNET inked recently on the perceived death knell that Vista will deliver to independent anti-spyware vendors. There's definitely a fight in store (David v. Goliath), though who knows how long we'll have to wait to see it play out now that Vista's delayed yet again. Is this a bit of foreshadowing on how the new Microsoft OS will address the self-replicating, zero-day spyware threats?" From the article: "Most industry watchers concede that it will be hard for Microsoft to easily displace the enterprise security businesses of leading vendors such as Symantec, McAfee and Trend Micro, which market integrated packages of applications to companies wishing to solve long lists of problems. However, for firms that are focused on only one of those problem areas, analysts said, Vista and the other Microsoft security products could pose a significant threat."

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[grikdog]

November this year: Americans vote against the neo-cons and hand the U.S. Congress to Democrats (both House and Senate), on the grounds that it wasn't broke when the G.O.P. got it and now they can't fix it.

November two years from now: Americans vote against the neo-cons and hand the Presidency of the United States to Jimmy Carter. Hey, he can run again!

January, 2008: The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court reveals that he's a) not gay, b) a closet Democrat, and c) punches "cowboys" in Laramie for fun. Scalia has a heart attack laughing, and Clarence Thomas gropes Ruthie Ginsberg, figuring she'd never notice. (Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. So wrong.) Carter nominates Hillary Clinton for Chief Justice, and the appointment is passed in three hours by acclamation.

Microsoft is up to their widely-spaced ears in antitrust suits by January 25th. Surprise, surprise, surprise, you all.

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