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Microsoft Admits to Serious Problems with OneCare

Posted by Zonk on from the reroute-power-from-the-warp-core-if-you-have-to dept.

ZDOne writes "A ZDNet reporter has gotten some truly amazing quotes out of a Microsoft product manager about the troubled OneCare product. Arno Edelmann, Microsoft's European business security product manager, was flagged down at this week's CeBit event, and had this to say about the service: 'Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products, we buy products. It's not a bad product, but bits and pieces are missing ... OneCare is a new product — they shouldn't have rolled it out when they did, but they're fixing the problems now.' The problem is apparently with the the GeCAD antivirus code, which has had problems harmonizing with the company's Exchange updates. While Exchange 2007 doesn't cause issues, users with older versions may see their email quarantined as a matter of course."

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  1. Microsoft is not a security company by rainhill · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Microsoft is not a security company. Security is important, but it's just a little part of Microsoft," Gee, that's new.

  2. Too Funny, and RAV by PhYrE2k2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Too funny: "Microsoft is not a security company. Security is important, but it's just a little part of Microsoft,"

    Nonetheless, GeCAD had good software products in RAV Antivirus (the romanian antivirus) but it was never as consumer-friendly or effective as it needs to be. SHould have left it as RAV- those of us using it as a linux mail server would have been happier.

    -M

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  3. Re:Far more interesting admission by iabervon · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's clearly their more business-friendly name for ADamn, which the EU has been trying, unsuccessfully, to make them give.

  4. And that sums up their problems. by Stumbles · · Score: 3, Funny
    To quote " Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products, we buy products... "

    So much for Microsoft's mantra of innovation. How can you possibly be innovative when all you do is buy up existing technologies and try to bolt them onto a POS of an operating system? Don't answer because that is a rhetorical question.

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  5. Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products ... by ubrgeek · · Score: 2, Funny

    They develop "undocumented features" :)

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    1. Re:Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products ... by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 2, Funny


      Microsoft's new slogans:

      Microsoft - we innovate bugs faster than anyone.

      Microsoft - we innovate bloat.

      Microsoft - we innovate computer insecurity. Beat that, Linux!

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  6. Re:There is also no 64-bit support by VEGETA_GT · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whoever runs the OneCare group should be fired! fired out of a cannon into the sun.
  7. Their new Seuse line by jd · · Score: 3, Funny

    OneCare 2.0 Care, RedCare, BlueCare.

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  8. MS Doesn't Develop Products? by cmacb · · Score: 3, Funny

    Usually Microsoft doesn't develop products, we buy products.


    And all this time I thought Bill and Steve chanted "innovate" a few dozen times and new products just sprang into existence!