Microsoft promises

[KamisoriX]

Redmond (WA) - Microsoft will offer a new service that will protect
Windows PCs from external attacks and offer maintenance as well as
performance tuning in one package. Windows OneCare is currently
tested by Microsoft employees, will be offered as broad public beta
software thereafter and go commercial later this year.

Microsoft's recent acquisitions of anti-spyware and anti-virus technologies are
beginning to make sense in the firm's long-term security strategy. "The dynamic
nature of the Internet and technology can make the protection, maintenance and
optimal performance of PCs a challenge for consumers. Keeping a PC healthy
today can be daunting and time-consuming for the average user," the company
said in an announcement on Friday.

Later this year, Microsoft will launch a subscription service, named Windows OneCare
that will provide automatically updated anti-virus, anti-spyware and two-way firewall
protection on the security side. "Performance and reliability" tools that automatically
run periodic maintenance tasks such as disk cleanup, hard-drive defragmentation
and file repair are included as well. According to Microsoft, there is also a backup capability.

Microsoft did not say if and how much it will charge for the service. Users however
should expect that Microsoft will put a price tag on security that will match similar
services, provided for example by McAfee or Symantec. Typical anti-virus, anti-spyware
and firewall services are priced between $20 and $40 per year.

A public and free beta of the software will be released after internal testing is completed,
the firm said. The commercial software is scheduled to launch later this year.



About time we get a secure Windows. Dreamchaser Kami has spoken

[interman]

at least they're doing something. kinda sucks that you have to subscribe to it, but i suspect it'll help the average joe with five 3rd party toolbars, constant porn popups and enough viruses to kill an elephant

[Hasse]

Yeah I agree with interman! There doing something.....OMFG!!

[Xpendable]

I see it at just another way to make cash for those types... (or to take over our planet)

:rant:


It should be F-R-E-E !



the greedy dutchman has spoken

[theGrayFox]

I'm with Xpendable.
WTF is wrong with MS. I mean, you'll have to pay to MS for something that should already be on the product that you bought. My pc is spyware free, in part because i use FF. It's true that some of the teahat that get's in your pc is derived from your own stupidity, but 90% of it is just because windows is a bad piece of soft that everyone is more or less threatened to use.

I garanty you that i'll not subscribe to that teahat!

Whilst I am not a huge fan of Microsoft, this new software sounds ideal in a corporate environment like the one I look after. If I can customise and distribute that over my 5000 clients then I am sure my workload will decrease dramatically... oh and I am bound to get a good deal on licensing seeing as I work for the World's largest employer and that I am based 1 mile from Microsoft UK! :thumbup:

[Lord Choc Obo]

Keeping a PC healthy
today can be daunting and time-consuming for the average user

well yeah isn't that THEIR fault?? :Oo: finally they're doing something

[Bucky]

Originally posted by Lord Choc Obo@May 15 2005, 08:08 AM

well yeah isn't that THEIR fault?? :Oo: finally they're doing something

Ehhmm... no. Microsoft puts out a product. They can hardly be held accountable because there are unethical people who will attempt to make your life miserable.

That attitude is like saying that the guy who built your house should not have put in the window that the burglar smashed in to rob you. MS could quite easily put out a totally and completely secure OS, it would just be that you couldn't do anything with it.

[Rich88]

I think it is stupid who ever made the viruses and why would you want to make a virus anyways.

[Hitman47]

Lets see who will be the first to crack it, I take zi challenge .