Microsoft to meet with security vendors

Another day, another update on the continuing saga that is Vista security. Let's recap: Microsoft announced a kernel-level API last Friday that security companies rejected as a "red herring". Well, Microsoft has responded by scheduling a briefing for today to instruct security companies on how to disable Windows Security Center and how to access Vista's 64-bit kernel. It still looks like developers won't have this access until the first Vista service pack is released and it still looks like they're going to have to play by Microsoft's rules--using a provided API to access the kernel. Color me skeptical, but I sincerely doubt that anything Microsoft says at this point will appease their critics in the security industry.

For more on the latest development:
- see this CNET article