Microsoft Partners Fuming Over Vista

October 20, 2006 A Microsoft employee tests the Windows Vista operating system

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is no stranger to antitrust skirmishes and complaints from competitors about unfair business practices. But the latest fight over its upcoming Vista operating system pits Microsoft against an unlikely adversary: the security software vendors who are some of its most intimate partners in protecting its notoriously vulnerable systems from attacks.

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