Make applications on your machine comply to whatever network policy you have? I honestly don't want to have to whitelist every single one program I run to be able to do access the network. Do you?<p>I'm also pretty sure changing firewall-rules requires administrator priveledges, and hence it's no different than it is on Linux. Except ofcourse on Linux, the firewall isn't application-aware, so you can't even control which processes are allowed to open inbound communication.<p>This really is a lot of noise over nothing.