No security blanket

The next round of the Microsoft and Brussels tussle is starting before the bell has rung on the previous one. Security software companies McAfee and Symantec are protesting that features in Microsoft’s new operating system, Vista, will violate European competition law. Even though these protests come before Vista is launched, any resulting changes are likely to be too little or too late. McAfee and Symantec fear they will suffer the same fate as Netscape. Microsoft essentially killed the competi...