It seems like our endeavors with Patchguard has made it into the news. They did misquote us a bit, but it would not be news if some misquoting does not happen 
Patchguard is an interesting attempt at making Microsoft Vista more secure. As an industry we fully support all attempts at improving security. The reality is that Patchguard will at most only have a short term effect on stopping the tide of rootkits and other technologies that it is trying to prevent. The current design of the Microsoft kernel implies that Patchguard is going to be nothing more than the name suggests: A patch.
Patchguard is like giving the crew of the Titanic wine glasses to save the ship. At best it can create an illusion of happiness but it will probably not achieve much. Even with Patchguard in place there are several technologies available to do the same bad things as it is trying to prevent, just in different ways.
A big concern for me is that Microsoft has suddenly decided to be the one and only expert on what security is without an idea of what the real problems are that they are trying to solve. Being in a monopolistic environment this can have catastrophic results for their (and our) customers. They only have one view of the problem; we have had to deal with the real world security issues relating to Microsoft operating systems for years.