MSN reports that Microsoft is launching
a subscription service aimed at providing better protection for the Windows
operating system, which has been vulnerable to Internet attacks.
Windows Live OneCare
will protect up to three computers for about 50 dollars a year. Word is "Windows
Live OneCare works continuously, automatically, and quietly in the background on
your PC, ever vigilant against threats but never in the way, allowing you to
have fun and be more productive:'" As you can see from the
site they are
offering antivirus, antispyware, firewall, performance tune-ups, and data backup
and restore.
IMHO, patches aren't enough, the system needs to be built from the ground up
with much higher security. That means a lot of programs wouldn't even work after
that. And would MS provide this as a free fix to all of their customers? Ha! But
speculation is useless. Microsoft is never going to try to really fix Windows;
as successful as they've been already, why should they? Especially not when they
can make money selling services to protect Windows!
