Microsoft at loggerheads with security industry over Vista

摘要

Vista will be Microsoft's first operating system to be built literally from the kernel outwards with security in mind. But a key part of Microsoft's new approach, preventing third party security vendors from having access to the kernel themselves, has naturally run into controversy. After months of rumbling discontent the issue was finally brought into the open early in October 2006 by the world's biggest IT security vendor McAfee in a full page advert in the Financial Times, arguing that Microsoft's approach of blocking third party vendors would jeopardise the future security not just of the operating system but also the whole Internet.