Symantec on Friday accused Microsoft of using monopolistic tactics to keep third-party consumer security software from disabling Windows Vista's built-in security dashboard, but denied that it would soon meet with European Union antitrust regulators, who are looking into complaints that Vista will violate a 2004 ruling.
Microsoft said Symantec's charges were bogus.
The Cupertino, Calif. security company's beef with Microsoft is over the new operating system's Security Center, a dashboard that Vista presents to indicate whether the firewall is correctly configured, for example, or that the computer's anti-virus signatures are up to date. Microsoft plans to release Vista in November to corporate clients, and push it into general availability in January 2007.
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