Microsofts Free Anti-Virus: Is This An Apology?
Microsoft’s Free Anti-Virus: Is This An Apology? David Coursey, PC WorldFri, 12 Jun 2009 05:40:00 -0700 Who should know more about PC threats than the company whose software makes most of them possible? Is Microsoft’s upcoming, free anti-malware app the company’s way of apologizing to customers? Not hardly. The free service, codenamed “Morro” and due in beta “soon,” appears only after years of Microsoft trying and failing to sell a protection product called “OneCare,” which routinely landed low in the protection ratings. As I said, you’d think Microsoft would know more about solving its own security problems than anyone, but if that were really true, we’d face fewer problems in the first place, right? Microsoft also badly needs to do something to add zing to the Windows 7 release. That’s zing, not Bing, which will, presumably, already be in Windows
