Microsoft plans to meet with security companies to discuss part of the changes it has promised to make to Windows Vista in response to competitive concerns.
The Redmond, Wash., software giant has planned an online briefing for security firms on Thursday, a company representative said late Wednesday in an e-mailed statement. The meeting is to discuss how third-party protective software can interact with the innards of 64-bit versions of Windows Vista, the representative said.
The Thursday meeting will discuss scheduling for development of the technologies to work with the Vista kernel, Microsoft said. These APIs, or application program interfaces, will not be ready until after Microsoft releases Vista to PC makers and CD factories, which is called release to manufacturing, or RTM, the representative said.
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