I found this article very interesting. Microsoft has held annual meetings with the top antivirus companies during the last ten years, and it’s usually thought of as a productive meeting (at least for the antivirus companies :) but this year’s meeting has created different feelings.
Now that MS has decided to go into the security business, with its own antivirus and antispyware products, the companies that regularly attend the MS security meeting are starting to feel doubt about the quality of the information they are recieving as well as about the intentions of Redmond’s Komodo Dragon.
The article is looong but very very interesting…just as a taste, how about this:
“Having been put into that situation, people
will feel more inhibited to say things,” said Jimmy Kuo, a McAfee
fellow and a veteran of the Microsoft events. “They ask us to sign a
nondisclosure agreement, and if we say anything in those meetings that
Microsoft is able to use, they have the right to do so.” The agreement
was introduced in recent years, he said.
Nice, uh? :) You can’t say a thing about anything we tell you, but we can do whatever we want with anything you say…that sounds so…microsoftish.
As I said, it’s a very interesting article, and it makes you wonder why companies decide to go into business with MS, even in an “independent” way as 3rd party developers.
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