Clearly afraid that it won’t be needed anymore, Symantec had complained to the EU that wants security features from Vista removed. Basically, make Vista so idiotically dumbed down so then Symantec can continue to line its pockets.

One of the complaints is the Security Center in Vista they want to be able to replace with there. This is despite the ability to fill it with all their own icons and logos throughout the control panel. Next thing they want is kernel protection removed. Malicious software can patch the Windows kernel to do their bidding, and Symantecs products can fix this by patching it again. So, now that it is impossible to patch the kernel, and hence not have any malicious software lurking there, they want Kernel PatchGuard removed.

So, Symantec is a business, and now they are seeing a threat from Vista because it features built in security. These are the right moves that Microsoft are taking - you shouldn’t need to pay someone else to have a secure computer. Quite frankly, Symantec are just being idiots.

In other news, Adobe is also trying to bundle its crap in the OS as well. As a new XML format called XPS (XML Paper Specification) is built into Vista, and will compete with PDFs. I don’t see a problem with this, as there are lots of programs that make PDFs for free anyway. Adobe have already stopped Microsoft from having a publish to PDF function in future versions of Office. Now they are just being silly.