Microsoft Working With Security Vendors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 17, 2006 @01:57AM from the seen-the-light dept.

mikesd81 writes "The BBC is reporting on Microsoft's U-Turn. They've now given security vendors some of the information they want to make their products work with Microsoft's new operating system, Vista." From the article: "Earlier this month, security firm McAfee took out a full-page advert in the Financial Times to alert readers to its worries about the way Microsoft was handling the release of its new operating system. 'Microsoft seems to envision a world in which one giant company not only controls the systems that drive most computers around the world but also the security that protects those computers from viruses and other online threats,' the advert said. "

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Why MS never can do it right? by atchijov · 2006-10-17 02:24 · Score: 1, Troll

So MS try to do "right-thing" by hardening Vista. Due to they arrogance they ignored all 3-rd party security companies while doing it. Now they figure out that they can not ignore them after all. So instead of having properly designed 3-rd party integration APIs they will try to put together something quick -- and most likely undo at least some of the "right-things" in the process.