Will Microsoft Shut Out Internet Security Competition By 2008?

Like many Internet security vendors, we’ve been closely watching Microsoft’s latest actions with regard to Kernel Patch Protection (KPP). It’s our conclusion (and no doubt the same conclusion has been reached by many other vendors), that Microsoft’s promise to release its API will have little or no effect on a situation some security experts are already calling “shutting down the competition in the Internet Security market”. Hallowe’en is coming soon, but the prospect of end users relying on Microsoft for Internet security is much scarier, in our view.
The official story:As early as July 2006, we raised concerns about the introduction of Kernel Patch Protection; larger vendors like Symantec and McAfee raised the same questions later. As a result, the European Commission issued a warning to Microsoft that it must not shut out rivals in the security software market. The commission asked security vendors about issues they might have with Vista [...]

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