Microsoft likes to be the later comer? Once beating Netscape by bundling its Explorer to its Windows OS is the best example. Then by launching
live.com to compete arch rival Google's silimar service--personalized
Google search homepage. Now it is to enter Anti-virus field to combattle with companies like
Symentic and
McAfee, by providing
Windows OneCare Live which other than including an anti-virus software, contains the software for backing up a PC and restoring damaged machines, and a firewall. It is almost sure that there is no easy work for Microsoft to win this war. On my own computer, I am using
AVG of free version (then 6.0, now 7.0), it works so nice after being installed since my NEC laptop was once struck by annoying virus which intruded my system due to my carelessness to open an email from my then college academic supervisor with an .exe attachment in April, 2002. Till now I still remembered its file name Family Survey.
MICROSOFT will begin selling a personal computer antivirus service as part of a plan to compete with Symantec and improve the security of its Windows operating system.
Windows OneCare Live will cost $US49.95 ($67.90) a year for use on up to three computers, Microsoft general manager Ryan Hamlin says. A free trial will be available in May and the software will go on sale in June.
Microsoft has spent almost four years building the service to bolster security after attacks on the company's programs angered customers and led them to consider alternatives.
The company is entering the market more than 15 years after Symantec, saying current antivirus products are insufficient because 70 per cent of consumers don't have up-to-date virus protection on their PCs. (link)
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