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Doom For Anti-Spyware Software? So They say.

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sledz41:
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3604626


--- Quote ---UPDATED: A Yankee Group report published today predicts imminent doom for anti-spyware makers with the release of Windows Vista.

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--- Quote ---So in order for the predictions in his report that anti-spyware vendors will suffer under the freely available Windows Defender in Vista, first thing that has to happen is Vista must be a hit, and he doesn't think it will be.

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Even if we take out, Vista's popularity out of the mix,
do you really think this "Windows Defender" will be up to the standards of third party software.
Like Windows XP Firewall to third party software, its just a load of crap.
But something is always better then nothing.

I apologize if this subject has already been posted.

Pathos:
Will we see antiMS antitrust lawsuits again?

I would fail to see how not after the success of netscapes legal action against MS.

WMD:
I wouldn't bother with anti-trust on anti-spyware software.  I mean, the only reason it exists is because Windows sucks.  They aren't entitled to exist.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: WMD ---I wouldn't bother with anti-trust on anti-spyware software.  I mean, the only reason it exists is because Windows sucks.  They aren't entitled to exist.
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But Windows does suck, so they're entitled to exist ;)

WMD:
Software that fixes suckiness is never entitled to exist.  Why?  Because their existence relies on something that shouldn't be what it is.  At their rate, they are against fixing Windows because they need suckiness to sell their product.  And that, my friend, is not viable business, on the part of either Microsoft or .

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