Erik Funkenbusch wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:12:35 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> Only you, roy, could say in the exact same post "Microsoft to kill it's
> partners" and then claim that the market for it's partners will increase
> (vista less secure).
Microsoft WANTS to kill all those partners that keep killing all those
Microsoft approved spyware programs (they're signed :D).
But Microsoft has tried this before, and the last attempt at a
Microsoft Antivirus was so bad, primarily because Microsoft didn't want
to admit that there were viruses that were successfully getting through
- that most people scuttled the Microsoft version and went back to
Norton or McAffee.
Of course Microsoft can be a pretty effective competitor, and has been
known to deliberately sabotage competitors it wants to eliminate
(stacker, DR-DOS, Cyrix, OS/2, DesqView, GEM, Lotus, WordPerfect...).
Somebody was telling me Sunday night that McAffee had some killer bug
that was so bad they had to recall their software? Has anyone else
heard about this?
Has anyone figured out whether this might be "torpedos" (viruses,
worms, or "upgrades" which cause previously successful calls to fail
due to upgrades or other changes in a lower level DLL).?
> You can't have it both ways. Either Vista is going to put it's partners,
> like Symantec, out of business by providing it's own anti-spyware and virus
> protection, or the market will increase because Vista will be less secure.
> Which is it?
Microsoft WANTS to put McAffee and Symantic out of business.
The Microsoft offering will be so bad that people will want their
trusted favorites back.
Is the sosftware market for Microsoft so dried up that all there is
left for Microsoft to chase is the Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware market?
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