We’ve been noticing for quite some time now that every week breeds multiple articles on the topic of Vista’s security. It appears that Microsoft continues to be greedy in terms of securing their own operating system and not releasing it to some of their most trusted security vendors, such as Symantec and McAfee.

“Microsoft Corp. is no stranger to antitrust skirmishes and complaints from competitors about unfair business practices.

But the latest fight over its upcoming Vista operating system pits Microsoft against an unlikely adversary: the security software vendors who are some of its most intimate partners in protecting its notoriously vulnerable systems from attacks.

As Vista’s planned release nears, the company is facing a backlash from such vendors as Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc., which argue that even the concessions Microsoft recently made to appease European antitrust regulators won’t do enough to help them best protect their customers.

‘We’ve been talking to them for over two years on this issue,’ said Rowan Trollope, Symantec’s vice president for consumer engineering. ‘And now (with) basically a very short amount of time before the operating system comes out, we’re not in a good position to provide that security to our customers.’

Ultimately, consumers will decide whether Microsoft’s own security measures are adequate to combat increasingly sophisticated Internet threats and keep personal data safe from hackers and online criminals.”

Read the rest of the article HERE.

We don’t know about you but, the whole fact that Microsoft is meeting their own security standards is definitely not reassuring. Trying to dominate the computer security industry is a horrible idea, both for Microsoft and for everyone that uses their product lines. Not only can security vulnerabilities be overlooked from Microsoft employees through general assumptions (…bad idea), but it will also cause detrimental affects to all the computer security firms that find the holes that Microsoft misses. This could in turn give th ebad guys a healthy advantage in terms of releasing malicious software to the new operating system. So c’mon Microsoft, let the security firms work with the operating system and better serve your customers before its possibly disasterous debut.

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