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Much has been made in the press regarding the new Patch Guard feature in Windows Vista. Both Symantec and McAfee have complained that Microsoft has closed off Vista security to outsiders in favor of their own products. In turn, Microsoft has said that they will work with the vendors and supply APIs for them. And, it looks like Microsoft won't budge on their current stand.

However, could this be a case of sour grapes? Could it be that the two leading companies of security software, Symantec and McAfee, can't get their software to work, not because of Microsoft, but because they are not compentant enough? It could be the case. Apparently, Sophos software has an antivirus application that IS working with PatchGuard.

It will be interesting to watch this all unfold.