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Story: Symantec: Vista is not a security solution

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Symantec's comments biased (but some good points to be made)

The comments are bound to be biased not simply due to the fact that their software is not yet fully compatible with Vista but also because Microsoft is a competitor to Symantec in the security arena. However, I do think John Thompson makes some good points about consumer's requiring efficacy that comes with using products supplied by companies whose core business is information security. If security was as core to its business as it is to the likes of Trend, McAfee, Symantec etc, then we would have seen Windows 200/XP/Vista SE (meaning Secure Edition) where the billions of dollars would have been spent developing hardened operating systems rather than fancy GUIs. The Wow starts now, security comes later ... we hope.

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