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| Thread ID: 66007 | 2006-02-07 23:43:00 | Time To Pay The Rat.....Coming Soon! | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 428222 | 2006-02-07 23:43:00 | $eems Mr. Bill i$ going to go for the throat again..thi$ time on the enterprizing level of $ecurity and $ale$ of $uch. Remember the freebee Microsoft's Anti-Spyware Beta?...well here comes The Alpha Unit! Starting in June, Microsoft will charge users $49 for Windows OneCare Live (www.siliconvalley.com) , a subscription security service meant to protect you from the nasty malware that takes advantage of Microsoft's mistakes. You can't help but admire the vertical effectiveness of selling both the problem and the solution. (and ALPHA here stands for ANAL) |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 428223 | 2006-02-07 23:53:00 | Mircosoft are scum. Pure and simple. Sell you somthing full of holes. Sell you something to try and remove the crap the holes let in. Why the hell don't IBM or Google sink a few billion into Linux and end this bullshot. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 428224 | 2006-02-07 23:55:00 | Mircosoft are scum. Pure and simple. Sell you somthing full of holes. Sell you something to try and remove the crap the holes let in. Why the hell don't IBM or Google sink a few billion into Linux and end this bullshot. I bet we see a Google-way of handling this real soon! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 428225 | 2006-02-08 01:19:00 | Google are working on Googuntu (unfortunate name) or some such derivative of Ubuntu. Personally I think Ubuntu is far too raw and don't understand the rah rah raves. Google have been quietly acquiring OS and app developers coders for a wee while now. I'm sure they plan to take on MS some time in the next five years, or perhaps team up with MS and turn on the likes of Novell or IBM. So, sometime in the not too distant future we'll be saying Fing google. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 428226 | 2006-02-08 19:41:00 | I guess this gets a bumpo now, but there's a new slant to the M$ Beta stuff here...see if you can read between the blue lines: Windows OneCare Live is described by Microsoft as an "automatic and self-updating PC care service". Subscribers will receive anti-virus and firewall protection updates, "PC tune-ups" that help maintain the performance and reliability of their PCs, back-up and restore capabilities, and help and support. Microsoft underlined the advantage in using Windows OneCare in a statement, saying: "Research showed that most people's computers are insufficiently protected from threats... because users find the protection process confusing and frustrating." Windows OneCare Live provides a "just take care of it for me" service. News of the pricing comes a week after exiting Windows chief Jim Allchin told Computer Reseller News (www.crn.com MEKJVN?articleId=177104675&pgno=2) (CRN) the long-awaited Windows Vista client would not feature anti-virus protection, and customers would need to subscribe to Windows OneCare Live. That decision was based on business considerations rather than technical merits. Microsoft's decision to charge customers extra for anti-virus protection comes despite repeated claims by the company about the level of importance accorded to security in Windows Vista. Allchin last month said (news.zdnet.com): "Safety and security is the overriding feature that most people will want to have Windows Vista for.".........uh huh! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 428227 | 2006-02-08 20:17:00 | "Research showed that most people's computers are insufficiently protected from threats... because users find the protection process confusing and frustrating." Windows OneCare Live provides a "just take care of it for me" service. This may not be such a bad thing as discussed on this thread pressf1.pcworld.co.nz the average home user does not have the interest or ability to keep their system secure. They just want to be able to surf and get email and have everything happen automatically without having to configure or manage security programs. Even if there is a cost involved it should still be cheaper then getting their computer serviced at regular intervals. The sort of statement below from experienced computer users does nothing to address the problem so perhaps MS might actually have something useful for some people. "If they don't want to learn and don't want to continually pay for someone to fix up their infected PCs then they will just have to get off and stay off the internet. That is reality - sad but a fact of life, unfortunately. |
Safari (3993) | ||
| 428228 | 2006-02-09 04:17:00 | I guess you missed it . . . it doesn't appear that there is an option to manually download ANY updates or Hotfixes unless one subscribes to this new service . . . . . does that make anyone a little upset? Read on: "Subscribers will receive anti-virus and firewall protection updates, "PC tune-ups" that help maintain the performance and reliability of their PCs, back-up and restore capabilities, and help and support . That blue portion says nothing of anyone else getting any consideration at all . :D ;) |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 428229 | 2006-02-09 04:40:00 | I'm sure this service will just cover the firewall and antivirus and patches/updates for them - I highly doubt you would have to pay to get updates/hotfixes for the OS - this is covered in the cost of buying the OS... | HadO (796) | ||
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