May 15, 2005

Microsoft is getting ready to release a beta of its Windows OneCare service, which combines firewall, anti-spyware, anti-virus, backup and restore, file repair, hard drive clean up, defragmentation, and PC tune-up features. The consumer service will compete with a number of security and utility vendors like Symantec. It is yet unclear if customers will trust Microsoft to perform these tasks, since the company is responsible for many of the security holes in Windows that caused these problems in the first place.

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The PC World Article