Microsoft: June 2006 Archives
Alex over at Sunbelt Software blog is having a temper tantrum over what he terms the predatory pricing of Microsoft Onecare and Frontbridge. Image what he'd be saying if they were giving it away as they probably should be.
I dont really follow this all that closely. I'm currently a user of Microsoft Antigen and the prices quotes for Frontbridge seem to be what I'm paying for Antigen now. So I dont see the predatory pricing. Further he says Microsoft has gone outside the norm in their pricing method. The reality is that Sybari was always a subscription based model where the software is license for a period of time only. This is not a change.
The Legacy antivirus vendors should be on notice. If they want to continue with the same crappy products bundled together for higher prices it will no longer work. Alex says that Microsoft will stiffle innovation. I say the opposite. AV companies need to get off the bench and create better products.
I'm searching the Microsoft knowledgebase for help in letting a ISA 2004 server get to Windows Update when I find a kb article on the subject. It has links that should be put in an "allow" destination set. One of the links is http://ntservicepack.micrososft.com. A quick who is query shows that the domain is not owned by Microsoft. I checked the site over in a text browser and it seems to just be loading ads, but I'm not 100% sure.
I've notified Microsoft using the link on the page for article errors.
On Monday Microsoft released a white paper on the Malicious Software Removal tool.
It contains some very cool info on the metrics of the scan results.
