Misrosoft promises that its newly announced "Microsoft Defender" will be able to detect and clean the Sony rootkit installed when a Sony CD is played on a Windows/Mac machine.

Microsoft had to take a side in this dispute, after all other security firms such as Symantec and McAfee have already announced plans to treat Sony’s software as malicious (which it is, isn’t it?) and protect against it. Sony doesn’t have to complain much however; Microsoft’s Vista operating system will have the DRM protection built-into the kernel of the OS so that the Sony’s of tomorrow would not have to make their own weak attempts to write DRM protection mechanisms - Microsoft will give it to them "for free."