MS to Launch Paid Security Subscription Service 359
user24 writes "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.'
From the OneCare website: '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:'"
Re:Odd, isn't it? (Score:2, Funny)
Geeze Mistah (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
1. Build an OS that's so hard to use only geeks can use it
2. Charge 50 dollars for documentation/support
3. Profit!
Oh wait, that's Redhat
Re:Instead of competing with Symantec, (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Instead of competing with Symantec, (Score:4, Funny)
There are Nicotine patches to stop smoking,
Birth Control patches for unwanted pregnancies,
so why not Microsoft patches to quit Windows?
Re:protection money? (Score:1, Funny)
Have you noticed something funny about the name? (Score:1, Funny)
place your bets here.... (Score:2, Funny)
no rushing.. no rushing
place your bets here.. place your bets here..
Today's bet: When will MS bring out another paid service to make sure their Windoze Live OneCare service works as expected?
* lon3st4r *
Sure they can (Score:3, Funny)
Sure they can - I slap a Mac on 'em. Then they can't click on anything stupid because there is nothing to click on yet that causes harm.
Yes there could be - but it's hard to ignore the plain fact that there isn't.
Like all patches, it may not last forever but it does fix the immediate problem.
Re:Sure they can (Score:3, Funny)
Make it sufficiently profitable and that will change in a heartbeat. There have been exploitable problems in OS X, its not like it's impossible to do. Moving to OS X and staying an idiot user fixes nothing, it delays the inevitable for a bit.
Re:Instead of competing with Symantec, (Score:4, Funny)
Actually Windows Live OneCare comes withe a trained MS Goon that whacks you on the top of the head whenever you do something stupid. That's the "live" part.
I didn't quite get the "allowing you to have fun" bit though.
In my country (Score:5, Funny)
In my country, we patch them regularly.
- Vladimir