{"id":46,"date":"2006-10-17T08:49:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T13:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=46"},"modified":"2007-05-07T21:08:31","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T02:08:31","slug":"microsoft-opening-up-vista-kernel-to-security-vendors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/microsoft-opening-up-vista-kernel-to-security-vendors\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Opening Up Vista Kernel To Security Vendors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft also bent to demands from security vendors and the EU&#8217;s antitrust agency that it change its Vista plans for Windows Security Center, the operating system&#8217;s security dashboard. It will not entirely disable the dashboard, as it allowed third-party vendors to do with the same-named feature in Windows XP but will let security rivals program their wares to eliminate alerts from Security Center that duplicate ones issued by the vendor&#8217;s own console.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has compromised with security vendors who&#8217;ve been demanding access to the kernel of the upcoming Vista operating system so that they can update their security offerings, two analysts confirmed Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Following conversations with the European Union, Microsoft will make two security-related changes to Vista. First, it will create a new set of APIs, which will let third-party security vendors access information from the kernel. Microsoft will also build additional APIs to make sure Vista&#8217;s security status dashboard &#8212; Windows Security Center &#8212; doesn&#8217;t send duplicate alerts to users who have installed a rival dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>Both issues had been raised by long-time Microsoft partners Symantec and McAfee, which went public with their concerns last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft also bent to demands from security vendors and the EU&#8217;s antitrust agency that it change its Vista plans for Windows Security Center, the operating system&#8217;s security dashboard. It will not entirely disable the dashboard, as it allowed third-party vendors to do with the same-named feature in Windows XP but will let security rivals program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-windows-vista"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}