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  • Make Way for Morro

    Posted on June 11th, 2009 at 07:37 woody 4 comments

    Reuters 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.

     

     

    4 responses to “Make Way for Morro”

    1. does Morro stands for Microsoft Zorro?

    2. 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.)

    3. 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.

    4. 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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