Microsoft’s Free Beta Antimalware Releases Tuesday

Not that I’m excited to see ‘new’ Microsoft products, but they seem more of a ‘second try’ to products that did not succeed in the past. I guess this post is more of a rant about Microsoft than their Antimalware release this Tuesday. If you are interested in reading more about Microsoft’s ‘second try’ at an antispyware, antitrojan, antivirus ‘solution’ — you should click HERE.

To continue my mini-rant — Microsoft is having their run of second tries these past few years it seems. Anyone remember Microsoft’s “Live OneCare”? It only held 2% market share in its three year run. Doesn’t the name echo with a similar reverberation of Apple’s OneCare? Well, this is Microsoft’s ‘second try’ with Live OneCare — a product that flopped financially, yet it worked almost the same as other antivirus and antispyware solutions. This is because Microsoft hardly runs the forefront of new products, it lives in the shadows of others’ and meagerly copies and pastes.

What about Microsoft’s “Bing” that came out a few weeks ago. (I am actually in the works of compiling an analysis of Bing — to be released in the next few days/week) A lot of the features it has already exist. There is nothing that new about it. This is Microsoft’s ‘second try’ when it comes to search engines. Anyone remember their “Live Search”? What a flop, it just posted the same results as Google and Yahoo…and it was only a few years too late!

So it seems as though Microsoft has ditched their failure of a campaign with it’s “Live” series of products and has moved on to their “second try” line. Oh good lord. At least this beta is free — and I hope their full fledged product is free. Nobody is going to want to pay for something that is only second rate, when free alternatives that are better are readily available. I use Avast’s Antivirus (which is completely free and works great) and Super Antispyware (also free, also great) and I never see any viruses or spyware slow-downs on my system. Did I mention these are completely free options? (Oh, now I see that I already mentioned it) Best of luck to Microsoft in copy/pasting in the future!