Microsoft security meeting crashes--no, seriously

Irony just seems to follow poor Microsoft around like a security vulnerability, doesn't it? Remember how the biggest corporation in the history of everything was scheduled to hold an online security briefing yesterday, to appease major security vendors who have been publicly complaining about a lack of information on the topic of kernel access in Vista? Well, as it turns out, the meeting crashed after 15 minutes and Microsoft's most vocal opponents--McAfee and Symantec--were unable to log back in. The culprit? Apparently the folks at Microsoft got a bit confused while trying to use their own Live Meeting technology. There's only one appropriate response to this, folks: LOL.

While I'm sure that McAfee and Symantec think that this is no laughing matter, other security companies were apparently able to sign back in to the meeting. Still, this presents yet another delay for security vendors, who are scrambling to add Vista support to their products before the OS is released. A spokesperson from Microsoft, however, reassured the vendors, saying that "To ensure that all partners are able to listen, this is the first of many meetings to come." Hopefully they won't be relying on their own technology next time around.

For more on Microsoft's latest embarrassing blunder:
- check out this report from CNET