Microsoft rescheduled a meeting for security vendors to discuss its plans for opening up the Vista operating system. Microsoft had initially planned to lock software vendors such as Symantec and McAfee out of the kernel, claiming this would make Vista more secure. Security vendors said this would harm their products. Microsoft has said it expects to make new kernel application program interfaces for security products available as part of the first major “service pack” update to Vista. McAfee said there was “little indication” that Microsoft planned to live up to its promise, made late last week.”]
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