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No Anti-Virus in Vista
truthsearch writes "Microsoft will omit anti-virus protection in Vista, the next version of Windows. Redmond is promoting Vista as a landmark improvement in Windows security. Yet Jim Allchin also told CRN in a recent interview that there will be no anti-virus software. For unspecified business (not technical) reasons, Microsoft will sell anti-virus protection to consumers through its OneCare online backup and security service."
3) Bigger profits!
My wife's sketchblog Blob[p]: Gastrono-me
The new Taurus will have seat belts only as part of the optional FE (Family Edition).
Pricing and DRM.
Why would they ship a product that is likely to erase their own .dlls? What if it removed IE?!
The only change I can believe in is what I find in my couch cushions.
5) Vista will be a secure OS, thus it will not need any protection ;)
You're moving too fast here...
You're just yelling slower and louder to someone who already has no idea what you're truly trying to say...
Less Talk. More Stab.
In other news, MS announced that the new operating system will now be renamed to Windows Vista Millenium Edition.
Dman, I've been made. It's true, I don't even know what it means, but it implies credibility to my argument... ;)
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
I don't know either, but I wish /. could let you give a -5 score to any posting with "virii" in it.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.