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Make Way for Morro
Posted on June 11th, 2009 at 07:37 4 commentsReuters broke the news.
Thurrott confirmed it, without actually confirming it, if you know what I mean.
Morro is imminent. The beta could hit any day now.
As you may recall, Morro is Microsoft’s free antivirus product that’s supposed to be the replacement for the ill-fated AV portion of Windows Live OneCare.
What surprises me is the stock market reaction: Microsoft is up more than 2% and the AV manufacturers are down quite a bit. The market should’ve taken Morro into account months ago, when it was first announced. Some investors were clearly asleep at the wheel.
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4 responses to “Make Way for Morro”
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does Morro stands for Microsoft Zorro?
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rc primak June 11th, 2009 at 11:59
Morro the same, if you ask me! I’m sticking with Threatfire, Avast, Comodo (firewall and Memory Firewall only) and Super Antispyware. Amazingly, no conflicts in this roll-your-own bundle. (PC Magazine — Neil Rubenking — recommends Prevx 3 plus Threatfire, but I don’t like to pay others to fix what Microsoft breaks.)
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I don’t think it should be caused for concern though. Microsoft give it out for free, so I doubt they will have big budge to make it a decent anti-virus. They are for profit organization, so they can’t allocate 100% of their time to make a free anti-virus software that caches as many virus as possible. I won’t be surprised that Microsoft’s free anti-virus can’t compete with other paid anti-virus softwares. personally it is very dangerous practice for Microsoft. customers will think having Microsoft free anti-virus is good enough. this will give people false sense of security.
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rcprimak June 12th, 2009 at 23:53
Carl –
“Can’t compete with other paid anti-virus…” ?
Microsoft can’t even compete with the *free* stuff, if you ask me. (And West Coast Labs, among others.)
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