Microsoft plans to stop the Windows Live OneCare subscription-based service and introduce their new free security software for personal computers, codenamed “Morro”. This security system will be available in the second half of next year as free download and focused to protect personal computers from viruses, malware, spyware, Trojans and other security threats.
The advantage is, this system will provided for free and will used less resource, making it more compatible with older and slower computer, which make it useful for a wide group of consumers
The current Windows Live OneCare service, which costing $49.95/year, will be discontinues from June 30. Microsoft’s also said they would offer refund for customer who have already subscribed to their OneCare service.
Microsoft’s seems to be butting their heads at rivals Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro and Kaspersky, which are leaders in PC security market.
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3 Comments Received
January 29th, 2009 @ 2:53 AM
Something weird happened to Microsoft. It’s getting more generous with every year! Free antispyware, Windows Defender, malicious software removal tool, and now OneCare going to join the freeware family of MS products. It might beat Symantec because personally I don’t consider its products of top quality, but I doubt MS can compete with Kaspersky or TrendMicro. Sometime in the future, but not now. It took years for these companies to develop effective security products, while Microsoft tends to rely on marketing rather than on reliability and efficacy.
February 18th, 2009 @ 11:32 PM
Honestly I don’t like microsoft. I think their are weird. The use monopoly technic to conquer the market
July 5th, 2009 @ 7:22 PM
This program is no longer available for download (as of 24 June, 2009) from Microsoft and no mention of if and when it will be available again.
So now I can’t beta test this beta of theirs and am just a bit upset of the hoops I had to go through only to find out that you can’t download it now
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