<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Rasmussen</b> <<a href="mailto:jeff.rasmussen@gmail.com">jeff.rasmussen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I've started recommending Microsoft's Defender, for home users instead of Grisoft's AVG because:<br> 1. it will be installed by default in Vista<br> 2. it looks like Microsoft will likely not charge for it, ever
<br> 3. most home users just need something that will continue updating definitions (If AVG ever decided to stop offering a free package, then everybody I've recommended using it will probably have the free AVG installed with no current definitions just like the trial versions of Norton)
<br> 4. it works smoothly with the operating system (It doesn't work with MS own corporate proxy, therefore I assume that this will only be a consumer product offered by Microsoft to keep people from moving to Mac or Linux because of viruses)
<br><span class="sg"><br></span></blockquote></div><br><br>"it looks like Microsoft will likely not charge for it, ever"<br><cough-snort-spit><br><br><br>what? are you kidding? Microsoft is totally planting the seed for future "microsoft bi-annual software subscription service plan upgrades"
<br><br>"get all the latest new cool features! be safe from viruses and hackers! just pay us $49.95 a year"<br><br>just wait for it! honestly! <br><br>not to toot the linux horn on the linux user's group mailing list... but linux is pretty darn cool! microsoft is defiantly feeling the pressure from linux (and perhaps even osx!) The reason that vista is and will be such a relative nightmare for upgrades is that microsoft is still shipping software like it's 1993. Discs in boxes at stores? How quant, reminds me of switching out a stack of 42 floppy disks for windows nt
3.51. <br><br>how about a cd that your computer comes with that connects out to the internet and grabs the latest install every time you run it? How about point releases with real new features? How about small incremental changes, instead of huge scary sweeping changes?
<br><br>ahh but then we're talking cathedral vs. bazaar aren't we? ;)<br><br><br>oh and small new features... they can start with making the copy folder clock in winxp/2000 show a less retarded average time left<br>
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