Microsoft Anti-Spyware to Be Free of Charge

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @04:19AM from the just-the-right-price dept.

fubar1971 writes "During his keynote speech at the at the RSA Security Conference Bill Gates announced that the MS antispyware will be offered for free. From his speech: 'We've looked hard at the nature of this problem, and made a decision that this anti-spyware capability will become something that's available at no additional charge for Windows users -- both the blocking capability, and the scanning and removal capabilities.' Additional information at Government Computer News." Update: 02/16 16:57 GMT by Z : Microsoft was previously considering charging extra for this service.

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Re:Watch for the Error.log file by generic-man · 2005-02-16 04:46 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Compare Windows Fast User Switching to Linux's "ability" to switch from one X server to another X server. Windows wins every time if both users are logged in.

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