The consent decree was also used by not-really competitors like Symantec to try to block MS from hardening the OS kernel in Vista/Win7. https://searchsecurity.

The consent decree was also used by not-really competitors like Symantec to try to block MS from hardening the OS kernel in Vista/Win7. https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/Microsoft-PatchGuard-Locking-down-the-kernel-or-locking-out-security https://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/Microsoft-PatchGua...