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| | Vista: Antispyware, Yes. Antivirus, No |
 | | Windows Antispyware, which Microsoft renamed Windows Defender late last year, was part of the latest (December) Vista Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build. |
 | | Microsoft's consumer antivirus offering, known these days as Windows OneCare Live (code-named way back in the day, "A1") was not expected to be integrated into Longhorn/Vista at least not since Microsoft floated a trial balloon about the viability of such a plan back in 2003 or so. |
 | | As Web posters far and wide have pointed out, Microsoft brass are well aware that building antivirus software into Vista would likely raise the hackles of antitrust regulators here and abroad. |
| www.microsoft-watch.com /article2/0,2180,1917217,00.asp (1210 words) |
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