news.com.com— Microsoft's PatchGuard is designed to keep out malicious code. Security firms complain it's keeping them at bay, but not intruders.
Aug 10, 2006View in Crawl 4
Microsoft is in a cath-22 like situtation. the only reason that compaines like symantec exist is becuase windows is so insecure, it's a flaw in windows that opened up a new market. But if windows tries to make a good, secure product, then they are being anti-competitive by shutting down a market that Microsoft created in the first place by being so s**tty. so Microsoft has it's hands tied, they can't really make good secure code without being labeled anticompetitve, so really, who is being stifiled/anticompetitve here? Microsoft innovation? or Security software companies innovation?
Symantec is really hating Microsoft right now. I'm wondering when other vendors will jump on board the MS antitrust bandwagon. It's inevitable. Microsoft obviously can't learn to change its business tactics, and so it tries to bully 3rd party software vendors out. Well this isn't exactly how things are supposed to go in America, and sooner or later Symantec, Trend Micro, McAfee, and others will be heard and actions will be taken. Microsoft's gotta change its ways.
Think of the precedent that could be set if Microsoft and Symantec worked together jointly to try to protect its shared clients from the onslaught of attacks that experts say are imminent. It seems to me that unless these firms can work together -- we cannot expect their software to interface either. Just makes sense. Good discussion of a few alternatives here though. Thanks. Brain Based Business
tigroAug 11, 2006
Microsoft is in a cath-22 like situtation. the only reason that compaines like symantec exist is becuase windows is so insecure, it's a flaw in windows that opened up a new market. But if windows tries to make a good, secure product, then they are being anti-competitive by shutting down a market that Microsoft created in the first place by being so s**tty. so Microsoft has it's hands tied, they can't really make good secure code without being labeled anticompetitve, so really, who is being stifiled/anticompetitve here? Microsoft innovation? or Security software companies innovation?
burgerman851Aug 11, 2006
"no one is going to write code to hurt 10 people..."Well, if there are only 10 types of people in the world...
cptspauldingAug 11, 2006
Step two in the plan to extort us for virus protection on that swiss-cheese OS.
smohan123Aug 12, 2006
Symantec is really hating Microsoft right now. I'm wondering when other vendors will jump on board the MS antitrust bandwagon. It's inevitable. Microsoft obviously can't learn to change its business tactics, and so it tries to bully 3rd party software vendors out. Well this isn't exactly how things are supposed to go in America, and sooner or later Symantec, Trend Micro, McAfee, and others will be heard and actions will be taken. Microsoft's gotta change its ways.
ellenweberAug 20, 2006
Think of the precedent that could be set if Microsoft and Symantec worked together jointly to try to protect its shared clients from the onslaught of attacks that experts say are imminent. It seems to me that unless these firms can work together -- we cannot expect their software to interface either. Just makes sense. Good discussion of a few alternatives here though. Thanks. Brain Based Business