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Critics concerned over Vista security changes
Friday, October 27th, 2006
Microsoft is fine-tuning the final security model for the Windows Vista operating system and not 
everyone is happy with the changes.
Last week, industry analyst firm Gartner warned companies to hold off on upgrading to the 64-bit version of Windows Vista if the firms rely on host-based intrusion detection systems. Windows Vista is due out to consumers at the end of January 2007, and incorporates several security technologies including PatchGuard, which prevents third parties from modifying the core system software. However, Microsoft’s promise to negotiate with independent software vendors (ISVs) to allow access to security features of the kernel will not likely deliver any changes until Service Pack 1 (SP1) for the operating system, Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald said in the research note.
"With antitrust concerns temporarily satisfied, Microsoft may feel less pressure to make kernel modifications quickly," MacDonald wrote. "Pressure ISVs and Microsoft to work together to achieve rapid development of a mutually acceptable, trusted methods of interacting with the Windows kernel, starting with SP1 and evolving over the next several years." Critics concerned over Vista security changes
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