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[News] [Rival] Microsoft Bundles So-called 'Security' (as a 'Feature')

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Microsoft is Killing Another Product: OneCare

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| Microsoft to drop OneCare and launch free security software
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| What about Forefront, and security products from other vendors? 
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21787/1054/

Apparently they realised that selling 'security' separately is wrong.

Why is security still a 'product' and not a trait/feature that's bolted on?

Microsoft Realizes No One Wants To Pay Microsoft To Fix Its Own Security Flaws

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| Back in 2005, when Microsoft was first mulling the idea of offering security 
| software, we noted that the company was between something of a rock and a 
| hard place. If it decided to charge for the software, people would accuse the 
| company of trying to get people to pay to protect themselves from the 
| security vulnerabilities in Microsoft's own software.     
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081119/0056492875.shtml


Related:

Microsoft shipped OneCare unfinished?

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| Since shipping in May, OneCare has failed industry tests and exposed
| users to attack because of a security flaw in the antivirus engine.
| The application also incorrectly flagged Gmail as a virus and in some
| cases quarantined or even deleted complete in-boxes when a single
| e-mail was laden with a virus. 
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http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-6168629.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
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