Security Companies Tussle With MS Security Center

hey0you0guy writes, "The large security firms such as Symantec and McAfee want Microsoft to allow them to replace Microsoft's Windows Security Center. Microsoft is refusing these requests. 'By imposing the Windows Security Center on all Windows users, Microsoft is defining a template through which everybody looks at security,' Bruce McCorkendale, a chief engineer at Symantec, said in an interview. 'How do we trust that Microsoft knows what all the important things about security are to warn users about?' Given Microsoft's past, with vast piles of security flaws and patches, they should at least cooperate with these companies. A dispute still exists over PatchGuard, a security feature that Microsoft says is designed to guard core parts of the 64-bit version of Vista, but which critics say locks out helpful software from security rivals."

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Re:Dancing with the devil

[donaldm]

If Microsoft charges for "Windows Security Center" after all they designed NT5.x (NT, WIN200, XP, Vista) we could look at the following (From Wikipedia):

Extortion is a criminal offense, which occurs when a person either obtains money or property from another through coercion or intimidation or threatens one with physical harm unless they are paid money or property.

Extortion currently carries up to a maximum prison sentence of 20 years in most states and under Federal law.

If you look at how intimidation is defined then some people should be going to jail.

Does anyone see the above happening?