On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Carl Houseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It doesn't seem that there will be any business restrictions on use of this > product. If not limited to home/private-consumer use, it will likely pull > the rug out from under the other AV companies in the SB market.
Interesting. I imagine Symantec, NAI, etc., will be upset. Expect an anti-trust lawsuit. Outside that, I think it does depend on a few things, though: A1. How manageable the free AV is. A2. How effective it is. For A1: You may be tempted to say that a small business doesn't care about management, but working in a small business, I would say the opposite: It's the big companies that can afford to pay people full-time to worry about stuff. Small players *need* the automation tools just to stay afloat. (Of course, explaining that to the PHBs is tough, but that's nothing new.) For A2: I'm never going to be entirely comfortable with the idea of using $ANYCORP security software to protect an $ANYCORP system. It's not that I think Microsoft is doing anything nominally nefarious, it's that an outside perspective will often yield different results. Just like financial firms should always be audited by an outside party. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
