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Microsoft Vista security talks off to bad start - Bad URL Sent!

Security vendors looking to gain insight into Microsoft's plans for opening up the Vista operating system kernel were frustrated Thursday morning when a technical glitch kept many from joining the first online discussion of this issue. "Oops," wrote Microsoft Senior Product Manager Stephen Toulouse in a blog posting on the subject. "We had a glitch where we sent out a messed up link. ... We're very sorry about that, it certainly was not intentional and we definitely see that was not a good thing for people to experience on such an important topic."

Microsoft set up the meeting to talk about how it plans to give security vendors access to Vista's kernel on 64-bit systems. This has been a contentious issue, as Microsoft had initially planned to lock software vendors such as Symantec and McAfee out of the kernel, claiming that this would make Vista more secure. The security vendors said this would harm their products, and Microsoft finally capitulated, after first being warned by European Union regulators. Microsoft rescheduled its Thursday morning Web conference after it realized it had sent out a bad LiveMeeting link to participants, but in the end some security vendors were shut out of the meeting.

InfoWorld

Posted by | Fri, Oct 20, 2006 - 07:06 AM