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Microsoft Officially Announces Anti-Virus Product
Harry Maugans writes "Microsoft has officially announced their entrance into the anti-virus market. By combining anti-virus scans, anti-spyware scans, and firewall protection into a single package, Microsoft thinks they've created something fresh. So fresh they're charging an annual fee of $49.99 per year." From the article: "Microsoft's Windows OneCare Live program will be launched in June and made available online and via retailers for an annual fee of $49.95 on up to three machines. Customers who beta test Windows OneCare Live between April 1 and April 30 get to take advantage of a special $19.95 promotional price. Microsoft's pricing means Windows OneCare subscribers are likely to pay less up front than if they bought traditional anti-virus software like Symantec, for example, whose Norton AntiVirus 2006 protection pack for three PCs lists at $89.99."
You want me to PAY YOU for protection against the very problems your bad design made possible?
Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
1) Build and sell insecure product
2) sell security that should be inside the product (Windows) not inside a card box.
3) Profit
Grundgesetz * 23. Mai 1949 - 30. November 2007 - http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/
hehe, you couldn't make this stuff up. And people are going to choose the MS option because it's "the standard" and feel grateful that for only $50/year they're "protected". Damn they're good business people.
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they're charging an annual fee of $49.99 per year
...actually, I'm surprised it's not an annual fee of $49.99 TWICE a year.
And in other news from the department of redundancy department...