Most of Symantec's team, for example, was unable to attend. "It turned out that everybody on our team was not able to make the first meeting but one guy," said Cris Paden, a Symantec spokesman.
Symantec and Microsoft have a long history of a love/hate relationship and Microsoft has put more and more things into its operating system products that have closed entire markets for Symantec (and it's predecessors).
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Friday October 20, 2006 @11:17AM (#16516567)
Symantec just milked Microsoft security flaws and when they try to fix them in Vista went ballistic because they do not want to lose revenue stream
I hate Symantec product more then Microsoft -- they produce bloated horrible "scurity" applications that have simply no right to exist on rational marketplace. But FUD is a huge selling machine for this crap.
Symantec was one of the vendors shut out (Score:5, Interesting)
Symantec and Microsoft have a long history of a love/hate relationship and Microsoft has put more and more things into its operating system products that have closed entire markets for Symantec (and it's predecessors).
Re:Symantec was one of the vendors shut out (Score:0)
I hate Symantec product more then Microsoft -- they produce bloated horrible "scurity" applications that have simply no right to exist on rational marketplace. But FUD is a huge selling machine for this crap.