Chris Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 On December 17, 2004, Microsoft announced the acquisition of an anti-spyware company, surprising many in the industry. The acquisition is notable for two reasons. First, Microsoft had already revealed its intention to get into the anti-spyware market. Second, the company it purchased, Giant Software Company, was largely an unknown in the industry. Largely, that is, except for me. In a rare moment of luck, I'd actually been a fan, customer, and advocate of Giant AntiSpyware, as their anti-spyware solution is logically named, for several months. In fact, I've found it to be far more effective than the industry darlings, Ad-aware and Spybot Search & Destroy. And I've been recommending it to friends and family ever since.More | Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted December 20, 2004 Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 I read about this acquisition on Ceefax (p154). There it stated that M$ would initially offer the software free then most likely charge for it after a few months.Well, how many are going to take that up, assuming that Ad-Aware, Spybot and so on are not magically dematerialised into the great void of Microsoft's cyberspace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted December 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 More or less the same I'd seen on another forum:Charge for it: Upset MS customers.Don't charge: Be acccused of abusing their position and end up in court.Catch 22. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 M$ should leave these extras alone and concentrate on producing a foolproof operating system that doesn't contain bits taken from other peoples programs. Almost invariably these bits are only part of the full program they are removed from and consequently only part work, leaving the poor user to have to buy the full version anyway to get the full facilities.I thought Bill Gates had at least partly seen the light by not offering an anti-virus system but, it seems not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 M$ should leave these extras alone and concentrate on producing a foolproof operating system that doesn't contain bits taken from other peoples programs. Almost invariably these bits are only part of the full program they are removed from and consequently only part work, leaving the poor user to have to buy the full version anyway to get the full facilities.I thought Bill Gates had at least partly seen the light by not offering an anti-virus system but, it seems not.Hear hear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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