Microsoft enters Anti-Virus business. Hahaha

Microsoft bought some Romanian anti-virus company and plan on releasing their own anti-virus program and bundling it with the next version of Windows. That is just hilarious and terrible on so many levels. Now they’ll be making money from their own mistakes and errors. Plus it’s just another monthly “service” for them to force the poor Windows user into paying, if they want to get any work done on their computer. Now they can either fix the huge, gaping holes in their software, or just force everyone to pay a monthly service fee to be allowed to download the latest virus updates to keep stuff off of their machine. I’m guessing they will like the latter idea…

I really don’t understand how anyone can think Macs are too expensive anymore. You don’t have to buy anti-virus software on them, don’t have to pay a montly service fee to keep them running, don’t have to go days or weeks without your computer when you get a virus every couple of weeks, don’t have to waste time patching them 3 times a week, and on and on.

I often wonder if when I actually do get a Mac, I’ll be able to just let crap like this from Microsoft just slide by without getting so pissed off about it. Maybe I’ll just be able to sit back and smile, laughing to myself at all the silly Windows users out there, knowing that I don’t have to deal with any of that anymore. I hope so.

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2 Responses

  1. You know reading your blog everyday makes me want to just go down the street and buy a Mac more and more each day.
    How is an anti virus program going to help anything when half the time windows users get viruses from flaws in the windows OS????Its a vicious circle…..

    Scooter - September 25th, 2003 at 7:28 am

  2. Yup, rather than just fix the freakin’ security holes in the first place, they sell you MORE software with more monthly fees, that supposedly fix the problems that shouldn’t be there in the first place.

    If this kind of crap happened with other companies, instead of Firestone recalling all of those defective SUV tires that killed a bunch of people, they’d just keep making them, but they’d also start manufacturing tire patch kits, and for a monthly fee, provide you with roadside assistance to tow your totaled car to the junk yard for you, after you’re dead.

    Derek - September 25th, 2003 at 9:28 am