Vista news: Microsoft would create additional codes called APIs to give rivals access
Microsoft said it had made changes to its new Vista operating system to meet all the demands of the European Union and South Korea, hoping to avoid further antitrust action....
Security software companies such as McAfee Inc. and Symantec Corp. said Microsoft was preventing them from creating effective products by not cooperating with them sufficiently while developing its own programmes.
Microsoft said it would create additional codes called APIs to give rivals access to the operating system's core and thus enable them to write effective security software.
Reuters
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