According to this article from Yahoo News, Microsoft is serious about protecting its users… for a fee…
A new security service from Microsoft Corp. will charge users $49.95 per year to better protect its Windows operating system from spyware, viruses and other Internet attacks.
Microsoft plans to release the product in early June.
Called Windows OneCare Live, the subscription service will compete with security products made by traditional Microsoft partners, including Symantec Corp. and McAfee Inc. — although the software giant insists that its aim is not to run those companies out of business.
Wait. Wait. Wait… So basically Microsoft is saying, “Screw selling a secured operating system. This is great business opportunity! Let’s charge $50 for the ‘real patch’ and we’ll be rich!”
WTF!
This is brilliant! If you can’t make something good enough, sell your users something else to patch it! So the past 15 years has been a set up, building everything up to this point. If Microsoft hasn’t been able to make its own operating system safe and secured, what makes people think their service will? Do people in their board room even think about that?
When I mentioned the article to Kyung, he responded, “they are taking advantage of their own deficiency.” And then he reminded me of the infamous Blue Screen of Death often seen on Microsoft products. People were experiencing BSOD so often that they might as well put ads on them to generate some revenue…
I thought Mac users are the suckas who eat up everything Apple makes… It looks like all you Windows users are the idiots here for using something that’s broken and spend more to make it work the way it’s supposed to… How do you people sleep at night? (Because I know Microsoft exectives will sleep just fine.)
via [MacDailyNews]