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Vista Launches with Plenty of Third-Party Anti-virus Options
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Calming concerns that there might not be enough specialized security programs available to protect 
users of Microsoft’s Windows Vista, a range of the company’s security partners have launched anti-virus, anti-spam and Web content-filtering technologies designed for the operating system. The launches took place during the week of Jan. 15, so as to coincide with the introduction of the consumer iteration of Vista, Microsoft’s first all-new operating system since the launch of Windows XP in 2001.
At one point during 2006, as Microsoft battled with its partners over some of the internal security features built into Vista, most notably the PatchGuard kernel protection program used in 64-bit versions of the operating system, it appeared that some vendors might be forced to delay their products. Vista Launches with Plenty of Third-Party Anti-virus Options
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