Microsoft takes down barrier in Vista firewall
C|Net | at | by Mike
The firewall in Windows Vista will have half its protection turned off by default, because that is what enterprise customers have requested, Microsoft has said.
"Because the nature of an outbound firewall is to restrict the traffic sent to specific ports, the outgoing access in the Windows Vista firewall is open by default," a representative for the software maker told ZDNet Australia. "The reason for this is Microsoft has received strong feedback from its customers, especially from large organizations and government departments, saying that they would like to manage this feature from an administrator level."