Re: Will Microsoft make One Care for Vista?

11-12-2007

"Ric" <fraybentos@xxxxxx> wrote:

Quote:

>

	Quote:
	>> >> You are, of course, entitled to your opinion, but how does this differ >> from >> purchasing a 3rd party security product to replace what is in Windows >> natively? >> -steve

>
>Hi Stephen,
>
>I installed aVast dedicated antivirus. It does just antivirus and does not
>duplicate any of Vista's already inbuilt functionality.
>
>It just seems plain daft to me to buy a whole load of duplicated systems for
>my PC, especially when they don't work together. For example, when I had One
>Care installed I tried the ontrol panel feature
>"change startup programs", and it came up with message "Windows Defender
>not turned on - switch on to protect your computer". Eg Onecare turns off
>and replaces Defender, but does not tell the system that it is replaced with
>something supposedly better. This just tells me that Microsoft haven't
>designed OneCare to integrate with Vista - it was designed to integrate with
>XP.
>
>When Microsoft make a version for Vista that integrates nicely with Vista
>functionality and does not give confusing messages like the one above, then
>I will buy it as I liked it otherwise.
>

Thanks for the additional feedback. I would imagine that some of the limitations
of integration are that OneCare has to behave much like any 3rd party program
installed to Vista would. The OneCare team doesn't have special abilities to
modify core Vista functionality, only to use the same APIs that other vendors
have to allow OneCare to work. So, yes, there will be functions in Control Panel
that will seem to be a duplication, though the theory is that the interface for
PC security and maintenance will be OneCare.
-steve
--
Stephen Boots
MVP Windows Live
Windows Live OneCare Forum Moderator
sboots@xxxxxx

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