This may be all well and good for home users, which will make life a bit better for the rest of us that actually have a clue, but ,How does this help me do my job? Seems to me that it just makes it more dificult.

Having a choice of firewalls and Antivirus due to fair competition is a good thing, will Microsofts, security "improvements" trully be improvements, or have they just decided that they don't like currently available antivirus and firewalls becuase they don't make any money off them, and are going to force those producers out of business by using unfair competition pratices. The availability of these functions internal to windows is a mixed blessing.

Do I have to add even more complexity to our Group Policy's to FIX the problems created by this, and by doing so add more opportunity for someone in IT to make bad mistakes?

Does it BREAK Outlook's connection to Exchange servers like Internet Connection Firewall currently in XP does? Can you disable the built Antivirus?

With the current ICF enabled new messages never appear in your inbox, unless you select another folder, and then reselct your inbox because Internet Connection Firewall does not allow the Exchange server to communicate with the client except when the client originates the request.

Applications run by a good number of our scientists and engineers require the ability to turn off AV software for certain functionality to work. Matlab for instance.

Seems like all this does for me is make my job harder.