the same thing it once did in the browser sector (Score 2, Insightful)

In my opinion, the main thing following from the words of Microsoft specialists in the blog, is not the change of name but the fact that the software giant, I think, is about to do the same thing it once did in the browser sector.

"The engine is now moved to a system service ..." means that anti-malware (anti-virus) solution will be built-in in the next Windows. Why I call it anti-virus? Because like some time before the word "virus" was used for almost ALL malicious programs, now they are trying to call them "spyware". Anyone can see it in the Anti-Spyware Coalition site's chapter Examples of Spyware and Potentially Unwanted Technologies (http://www.antispywarecoalition.org/documents/def initions.htm).

Here is another quote from the Microsoft Anti-Malware Engineering Team blog: "The detection mechanisms have also been radically improved by applying to spyware threats all the great detection technology we use in our antivirus engine."

There can be no doubt that Windows Vista is going to incorporate the feature we would usually call anti-virus. Is this "system service" going to be charged or free? This is the question I am worried about.