Microsoft to drop Live OneCare for a light/free version
20 November 2008
by
Gunthy
Filed under
Software + Windows
Microsoft announced on Tuesday that they will stop providing the Live OneCare and started working on free consumer security software. They will continue to provide support for Onecare, but will no longer develop the platform anymore.
The new software, codenamed ‘Morro’ is supposed to be a light version of OneCare. The program will be used to detect viruses and other types of malware. Other features that are present on OneCare, like the defragmentation and backup tool, will not be included in Morro.
This is probably a good thing for the consumer market, but don’t get too enthusiastic. After all, we’re still talking about Microsoft here. While I don’t have any experience with their current suite, I doubt it is as good as other commercial or even free alternatives. On the other hand, they know the Windows system better than anyone else, so if they take this thing serious enough, this might just become something all Windows-users want!
Surely to be followed…
