Nick
06-01-06, 12:48 PM
"If...Microsoft (cannot) reliably defend its own OS,
then things are even worse than we've thought."
After years of insisting that security and maintenance software was best left to other
developers, Microsoft is moving to grab that business for itself.
Good.
Yesterday, Microsoft stepped on some of its most faithful third-party developers when it
unveiled its new Windows Live OneCare service, a $49.95-a-year package of security
and maintenance tools ( http://www.windowsonecare.com/ ) that provides most of the
services that Microsoft's customers have traditionally bought from Symantec and McAfee.
This is no reflection of OneCare's merits compared with the likes of Symantec's Norton
Internet Security and McAfee's Internet Security Suite. (Look for a full review of OneCare
later this month.) Offering OneCare is just the right thing to do -- even for a company that's
repeatedly lost court cases for bolting once-separate programs onto its operating system.
More @ WashingtonPost.com (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/31/AR2006053102193.html?referrer=email&referrer=email&referrer=email)
then things are even worse than we've thought."
After years of insisting that security and maintenance software was best left to other
developers, Microsoft is moving to grab that business for itself.
Good.
Yesterday, Microsoft stepped on some of its most faithful third-party developers when it
unveiled its new Windows Live OneCare service, a $49.95-a-year package of security
and maintenance tools ( http://www.windowsonecare.com/ ) that provides most of the
services that Microsoft's customers have traditionally bought from Symantec and McAfee.
This is no reflection of OneCare's merits compared with the likes of Symantec's Norton
Internet Security and McAfee's Internet Security Suite. (Look for a full review of OneCare
later this month.) Offering OneCare is just the right thing to do -- even for a company that's
repeatedly lost court cases for bolting once-separate programs onto its operating system.
More @ WashingtonPost.com (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/31/AR2006053102193.html?referrer=email&referrer=email&referrer=email)