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Just ahead of the launch of Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0, formerly codenamed Morro, analysis firm Gartner indicated that the Redmond-based company accounted for a share of just 2.3% of the worldwide security solutions market. Microsoft currently focuses mainly on offering business customers security product... |
23 June 2009
09:23 GMT |
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At the end of the past week Microsoft offered official confirmation that it was dogfooding (using internally) the next generation of its client-based security product. Codename Morro was announced initially in November 2008, and is planned for general availability in the second half of this year. But while Microsoft ... |
17 June 2009
07:50 GMT |
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Microsoft is on the verge of making available for download the first taste of an upcoming free security solution designed to replace Windows Live OneCare. In November 2008, the Redmond company announced plans to discontinue the availability of Windows Live OneCare and to offer Windows users a consumer-centric securit... |
11 June 2009
03:22 GMT |
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Windows Live OneCare will be available for customers to purchase after the end of this month. In mid-November 2008 Microsoft announced a shift in its security strategy and it plans to deliver a free security offering to users worldwide by the end of 2009. At that time, the Redmond company also mentioned that retail s... |
2 June 2009
13:01 GMT |
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If you're going to go out, at least go out with a bang. This seems to be Microsoft's motto for Windows Live OneCare, a security solution that, in the latest comparative tests performed by AV-Comparatives, managed to best almost all rival products, including offerings from Eset, BitDefender, Kaspersky, AVG, ... |
1 June 2009
09:47 GMT |
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Microsoft has offered official confirmation that Windows Live OneCare is not on the list of security solutions compatible with pre-release development milestones of Windows 7. The Redmond company acknowledged that upgrading copies of Windows Vista running OneCare to Windows 7 Beta would produce an error message infor... |
26 March 2009
06:39 GMT |
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The past month Microsoft announced a major shift in its anti-malware strategy. As a direct consequence, the Redmond company will kill Windows Live OneCare and replace it with a free security solution codenamed Morro. Following the news that OneCare is heading straight for an early grave, critics indicated that Micros... |
2 December 2008
07:38 GMT |
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A future core antimalware solution will replace Windows Live OneCare, which, considering the price of a one year subscription, has already qualified for an alternative to free security software, come mid-2009. Sales of OneCare licenses will be discontinued at the end of June 2009, in order to be replaced by codename ... |
25 November 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Introduced in 2005, Windows Live OneCare is heading for an early grave, with Microsoft planning to discontinue license sales of the all-in-one PC care and security product come June 30, 2009, and to offer support only as long as existing subscriptions will last. In the place of OneCare, the company is cooking what it... |
21 November 2008
08:34 GMT |
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At just three years after its introduction, Windows Live OneCare is nothing more than a dead antivirus walking. The Redmond company has signed the death sentence of its applauded all-in-one PC-care security solution, as of November 18, 2008. Come June 2009, sales of Windows Live OneCare licenses will be discontinued... |
20 November 2008
10:07 GMT |
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Microsoft is cooking a free security solution, designed to integrate seamlessly with Windows 7, as well as with Windows Vista RTM/SP1/SP2 and Windows XP SP3. Advertised as a no-cost consumer security offering, code-named “Morro” is set up to be much more than a simple antivirus, also offering protection a... |
19 November 2008
03:29 GMT |
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Microsoft has come out gunning for an exploit test performed by security outfit Secunia involving 12 Internet Security Suites among which Windows Live OneCare. The Redmond company labeled the results of the exploits targeting vulnerabilities test as misleading and confusing because Secunia focused exclusively on the ... |
16 October 2008
07:41 GMT |
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Microsoft has applauded a new move designed to give it a tad more pull on the security market against the already established heavyweight players in the industry. Even though it has been offering Windows Live OneCare for approximately a couple of years now, the software giant is yet to gain the same status as its riv... |
29 July 2008
09:56 GMT |
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A bundle of the Office 2007 System and Windows Live OneCare from Microsoft will come with a price tag of just $69.99. The only catch is that, unlike the traditional licensing models associated with Office 2007, the latest initiative from Microsoft involves a new subscription-based model for the entire package. Dubbed... |
2 July 2008
10:39 GMT |
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Microsoft's security solutions, including the Windows Live Safety Scanner version 1.1.3007.0 and Microsoft Windows Live OneCare 1.6.2111.32 (1.1.2803.0), have nothing on rival products from Avira, BitDefender, Kaspersky, Gdata, Symantec, Panda, Trend Micro and others. Independent security test outfit AV-Test per... |
20 May 2008
09:28 GMT |
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Code-Named Albany is Microsoft's latest venture into the territory of software plus services and is designed as an all-in-one subscription service. Albany has now debuted into a private Beta setup to analyze the initiative's capacity of increasing productivity, security and connectivity for customers. Alban... |
21 April 2008
06:13 GMT |
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At the start of April 2008, Microsoft made available a taste of the next version of Windows Live OneCare, namely build 2.5. Windows Live OneCare 2.5 is in Beta stage and as such is offered as a free download. The best thing about it in this context is that the security solutions are not limited to being installed on ... |
8 April 2008
07:15 GMT |
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Microsoft has opened up the beta testing process of Windows Live OneCare Beta 2.5 to the general public. Because it is a free beta OneCare 2.5 can be installed on more than three machines belonging to the same user unlike the paid version which is limited in this sense. Microsoft revealed that all the current users o... |
3 April 2008
07:18 GMT |
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Windows Live OneCare is right on track to getting an anti-rootkit upgrade. Microsoft plans to added rootkit detection capabilities to its line of security products, but not only OneCare will be impacted by the change. The Forefront line of enterprise security solutions will also feature the added rootkit detection ca... |
20 March 2008
12:31 GMT |
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Microsoft takes OneCare of green. Via a new initiative from the Redmond company marketed under the slogan "Get Green, Stay Green", Windows Live OneCare all-in-one PC protection capabilities are highlighted. The "Get Green, Stay Green" campaign is connected, and not by coincidence, with the celebration of St. Patrick&... |
19 March 2008
09:56 GMT |
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It seems that Windows Live OneCare fails to play well with other security solutions. As a general rule it is ill advised to run security products simultaneously on the same machine. The fact of the matter is that antiviruses not only fail to coexist, but also interfere with one another to the point where the Windows ... |
7 March 2008
06:57 GMT |
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A new year... A new beginning... And the inevitable security solution smackdown. In this context, AV-Test has thrown together in the same arena no less than 24 antivirus products from the heavyweights of the security market. The security solutions were tested against in excess of 1 million malware samples from the la... |
29 January 2008
06:19 GMT |
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Microsoft confirms that it is currently hard at work hammering away at Windows Live OneCare 2.0. In this context, an update for the antivirus is in the making and planned for the end of the month. Windows Live OneCare 2.0 is designed as the successor of Windows Live OneCare 1.6. The latest version of the Redmond comp... |
14 January 2008
04:32 GMT |
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There are various factors that come into play when security solutions are concerned. Antivirus products come with a variety of facets, from the frequency of virus signatures update to a low rate of false positives, and from performance to keeping a low profile as a background process. Well, one of the aspects involve... |
28 December 2007
10:37 GMT |
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After Kaspersky 6 and 7, the Antivirus and Internet Security editions, managed to strike out on Windows XP and Windows Vista, it's now the turn of Microsoft's own security solution to deliver a performance "close to perfection". After the introduction of faulty signatures updates, Kaspersky incorrectly lab... |
21 December 2007
05:32 GMT |
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Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft's one-size-fits-all solution is no longer the laughingstock of the security industry. Back in the first quarter of 2007, following the release of Windows Live OneCare 1.5 which accompanied Windows Vista to the market, Microsoft's antivirus managed to drastically underperform ... |
13 December 2007
06:44 GMT |
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If you think that Windows Live OneCare has been misbehaving on your copy of Windows machine and that the security solution has been tampering with the settings of your operating system, and suspect foul play, then you might as well know that this is not the case. Not even close. Microsoft addressed feedback reporting... |
29 October 2007
05:26 GMT |
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Windows Live OneCare 2.0 takes the user out of the wireless security equation almost completely. Microsoft's security solution is designed to do nothing more than to automate the process of securing a wireless connection making the necessary adjustments to the router on behalf of the user. A new feature that is ... |
16 October 2007
05:00 GMT |
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Microsoft's latest full version of its antivirus, Windows Live OneCare 1.6 has failed miserably a test conducted by the Anti-Malware Test Lab. The Redmond company's solution was easily surpassed in terms of performance by rival product from heavyweights of the security industry such as Kaspersky, Symantec a... |
20 September 2007
05:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has evolved Windows Live OneCare 2.0 and a fresh version is now available for download. The Redmond company is all about silent updates these days. First, the stealthy updates introduced to the Windows Update infrastructure in Windows Vista and Windows XP and now the silent upgrade of the first beta for One... |
14 September 2007
05:50 GMT |
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Anybody who is anybody in the security industry delivers products superior to Windows Live OneCare from Microsoft. At least this is the clear indication of the latest round of AV-Comparatives tests from Andreas Clementi. Microsoft OneCare 1.6 was topped by security solutions from household names on the security marke... |
4 September 2007
10:23 GMT |
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In the wake of the launch of Windows Live OneCare 2.0 Beta 1, Microsoft's Gina Narkunas, lead product manager for Windows Live OneCare, revealed the top three reasons designed to convince users to adopt the company's anti-virus. OneCare complements Forefront, Microsoft's security solution addressed at ... |
12 July 2007
12:58 GMT |
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Concomitantly with the customer launch of Windows Vista at the end of January 2007, Microsoft also made available Windows Live OneCare 1.5, the product being synonymous with the company's baby steps into the security industry. Microsoft did not have an easy ride going against house hold names such as Symantec, K... |
7 June 2007
03:06 GMT |
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Microsoft has managed to score its first points in the security industry with Windows Live OneCare. Microsoft's latest operating system has received the second VB100 award in its short life. But so far the awards delivered by Virus Bulletin have been a negative vote on the performances of Windows Live OneCare, e... |
5 June 2007
05:33 GMT |
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Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare is not the last and least anti-virus solution available on the market any more. The Redmond Company has obviously poured a lot of effort into its security solution in order to get it off the ground and out of the performance dump. Since launching Windows Live OneCare at the begin... |
4 June 2007
08:55 GMT |
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In response to customer feedback, Microsoft has presented the main reasons why it requires Windows Live OneCare activation. In the Redmond Company's view, activating the product is much more than simply keeping track of its usage across a number of machines. Currently, users can install the same copy of OneCare ... |
28 May 2007
02:52 GMT |
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Rival security developers Symantec and Sophos have made a united front against Microsoft, and downplayed the relevance of the Redmond Company's presence in the industry. Both security companies adopted similar contemptible perspectives when dealing with Microsoft and aimed at the technology that is at the basis ... |
9 May 2007
10:37 GMT |
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I thought long and hard about the title to this article. And this is the most comprehensive illustration of my conclusion after reading some blog posts authored by Gina Narkunas, Microsoft Lead Product Manager and Jimmy Kuo of the Microsoft Security Research & Response team. Both address recent reports that the anti-... |
16 March 2007
12:51 GMT |
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Where there's a will there's a way. And the fact that Windows Live OneCare did not actually delete user emails helps a tad. Some users of Microsoft anti-virus and Outlook and Outlook Express have experienced email problems lately due to the fact that OneCare erroneously quarantined .PST (Outlook) and .DBX (... |
16 March 2007
06:03 GMT |
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I guess that later is better than never is the new motto of the division that builds Microsoft's anti-virus. The Windows Live OneCare team has finally managed to wake up, four days after it has fixed an issue with the Microsoft anti-virus and .PST and .DBX bug and presented the following message: "we can help!" ... |
16 March 2007
04:49 GMT |
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