Windows Onecare Now Available for Anyone to BETA Test
So what's Windows OneCare?
It's the new antivirus, firewall and and backup solution being provided by Bill.
The BETA version is now available to everyone that speaks english
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16.12.2005 Microsoft Expands OneCare Beta Test
Microsoft is expanding its Windows OneCare beta program, opening the door for more testers to trial the company's comprehensive PC protection and maintenance package. Initially OneCare will include antivirus and firewall protection, an automated PC tune-up, and backup and restore functionality.
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Microsoft OneCare fails virus test
Independent security certification body Virus Bulletin tested 15 security suites on Windows Vista against a set of malware from the WildList database.
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6.2.2007 Microsoft's OneCare improves antivirus test ranking
But top-dog NOD32 detects nearly 5 times more new threats than 14th-place OneCare..
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6.6.2007 OneCare places 16th in antivirus test, 13th in spyware
Virus Bulletin this month released the results of a major comparative of the latest security products, covering a range of metrics.
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6.9.2008 Windows 7 RTM and MSDN Academic Alliance MSDN AA Availability Update
At the start of this week, I posted an article informing users of the fact that Windows 7 RTM was available for download via MSDN Academic Alliance (MSDN AA). Looking at the comments that have been piling up I think that an update is necessary to clarify some aspects.
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14.8.2009 How much will Windows 7E really cost?
During the past week, Windows 7E pricing got a lot of buzz as sites got hold of Microsoft’s pricing details.
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5.7.2009 Microsoft Warns Games Could Cost More
After Electronic Arts representative Keith Ramsdale warned that a new rating system might lead to delays for game launches in the United Kingdom, it's Microsoft’s turn to rally against the intention of the British government to introduce a reform when it comes to rating videogames.
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1.7.2008 Windows Vista Ultimate Could Cost $450
We have absolutely no way of confirming the information ourselves, but according to iTWire, we can expect to really pay out the nose for the most ultimate version of Windows ever conceived, Windows Vista Ultimate.
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30.5.2006 The low-cost laptop that Apple should have built
The buzz around the XO Laptop, aka the One Laptop Per Child group’s “$100 laptop” is growing, with an innovative donation program coming in time for the holidays.
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8.10.2007 Confickers estimated economic cost? $9.1 billion
In a recent blog post, the Cyber Secure Institute claims that based on their previous studies into the average cost of such malware attacks, the economic loss due to the Conficker worm could be as high as $9.1 billion.
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24.4.2009 The low-cost laptop offer Microsoft cant refuse
As the release of low-cost laptops based on Intel's upcoming Atom processor draws near, Microsoft is getting boxed into a corner.
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1.4.2008 Cost of Vista Business License Offset by Savings, Says Microsoft
For a great many large businesses, "the move to the next Windows" has been an ongoing, daily affair for at least well over a decade. And up until recently, the reasons why this migration tends to proceed so slowly have been, to Microsoft, a complete mystery.
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15.6.2007 Microsoft launches new low-cost PC effort in India
Microsoft has launched another low-cost PC effort in India, this time partnering with chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices in an effort to get more computers into the hands of students.
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28.6.2007 Microsoft Picks Partners to Fight Phishing
Microsoft has signed up three companies to add phishing monitoring and detection technology to its antiphishing filter in the MSN Search Toolbar and the upcoming release of Internet Explorer 7, and its SmartScreen e-mail filter, the company says.
The software vendor has also released the final version of its phishing filter add-on technology for the MSN Search Toolbar. The technology is available as a
free download.
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19.11.2005 Microsoft Partners: Vista Campaign Was Deceptive
Microsoft may soon be defending itself from a class action lawsuit over its 'Vista Capable' marketing campaign, and several of the vendor's channel partners aren't the least bit surprised.
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14.2.2008 Microsoft Partners with Top Social Networks
Today Microsoft is announcing some significant developments to the Windows Live platform that demonstrate Microsoft’s commitment to data portability and giving users a choice of how to use and control their information.
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25.3.2008 Partners and retailers rally apps, support for Vista
With the consumer launch of Windows Vista on the horizon, Microsoft's software and retail partners are preparing for the launch with applications and support for the new OS.
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25.1.2007 New Windows Home Server Hardware and Software Partners
In his keynote address at the Microsoft® Windows® Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) 2007, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates today demonstrated Windows Home Server and announced new hardware partners for the upcoming product, which include Gateway Inc., LaCie and Medion International.
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15.5.2007 Microsoft Partners: MinWin Could Soothe Vista Headaches
In the year that has passed since Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT) released Windows Vista to business users, the operating system has gained a reputation in the channel as a bloated memory hog that many companies are avoiding like a trip to the dentist.
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3.12.2007 Vista SP1 to Include Common Security APIs for Partners
A spokesperson for Microsoft Thursday evening characterized as "grossly inaccurate" reports from earlier in the day, including from Reuters, stating that a technical glitch in the company's Live Meeting services led to a dissolution of a meeting between Microsoft and security products vendors.
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21.10.2006 Office 2007 Referral Payment Pilot Irks Some Partners
Microsoft's plan to pilot test an Office 2007 referral payment program with a limited number of large system builders has some smaller partners miffed.
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25.1.2007 Microsoft Cites Top 10 Reasons Partners Should Pitch Vista
Microsoft cut the WinFS file system and PC-to-PC synchronization from Windows Vista, but the company says there are at least 10 key reasons for partners to push the upgraded desktop operating system to their SMB customers.
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11.7.2006 Hosting Partners Cast Wary Eye At Microsoft Office Live
With Microsoft's Office Live open for business, its shadow looms large over other hosted collaboration and e-mail services for small businesses.
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6.3.2007 Windows 7 beta on MSDN?
Just as many are waiting for the Windows 7 beta to be announced at CES, we have a Microsoft blog saying its available on MSDN!
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8.1.2009 MSDN Opens Up to Firefox, Opera
MSDN announced last week that it had tweaked its subscriber download site in order to make it compatible with both Firefox and Opera. There are some issues, such as extra work needed in installing the File Transfer Manager, however developers are working on a new version of the FTM that should correct final problems.
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Microsoft Releases MSDN Wiki
Microsoft has released its Microsoft Developer Network Wiki for developers.
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9.12.2006 Windows Home Server - Now available on MSDN
A key benefit of Windows Home Server is the versatility and power it offers as a development platform. Even when Windows Home Server software was still in the beta stage, we published a software development kit (SDK) so that 3rd party developers could develop interesting add-ins for the product. See the original post, "Developers, Developers, Developers".
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25.3.2009 Windows Vista RTM appears on MSDN
Microsoft Date/Time Posted: 2006-11-16 21:56:18 (UTC).
File: en_windows_vista_x86_dvd_X12-34293.iso ISO-9660 DVD Image
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16.11.2006 XP SP3 Integrated Images on MSDN
Microsoft is pleased to make available integrated retail and volume license installs of Windows XP SP3, to MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers.
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3.5.2008Windows Live OneCare 1.6 released
After the discussion last week
that Windows Live OneCare 1.6
had been released, it is now
available to all users from
http://onecare.live.com/>oneca
re.live.com. Users already
running OneCare will be
upgraded over the next few
weeks, however you may prefer
not to wait.
Changes
in 1.6 include the ability to
disable the firewall (Firewall
Advanced Settings - Managing
and Sharing) as well as a
monthly report of firewall
activity available from the
OneCare dashboard.
OneCare also improved its
performance in the virus scan
test which saw it placed last
back in February, showing that
as promised, the team is
putting more work into the
OneCare detection.
Unfortunately it is still
ranked 14th out of 17 products
tested. Technical details of
the test are available from
http://www.computerworld.com/a
ction/article.do?command=viewA
rticleBasic&taxonomyName=secur
ity&articleId=9022779&taxonomy
Id=17&intsrc=kc_top>ComputerWo
rld. ..
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02.06.2007Microsoft Expands OneCare Beta Test
Microsoft is expanding its Windows OneCare beta program, opening the door for more testers to trial the company's comprehensive PC protection and maintenance package. Initially OneCare will include antivirus and firewall protection, an automated PC tune-up, and backup and restore functionality...
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02.09.2005Windows Live OneCare 2.5 Now Available
Beginning last week (July 1st to be exact) - existing Windows Live OneCare users (paid subscribers) began automatically receiving Windows Live OneCare
2.5. The Windows Live OneCare website also began offering Windows Live OneCare 2.5 for new users as well. If you are a Windows Live OneCare subscriber
and have not yet been automatically updated, you can either wait until the update occurs or download the new version from the Windows Live OneCare
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10.07.2008Microsoft to replace Live OneCare with 'no-cost' anti-malware
Exactly one year after it re-announced the commercial subscription edition of its anti-malware service for individual Windows users, Microsoft
announced it will discontinue Windows Live OneCare, replacing it with a free alternative...
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19.11.2008Microsoft Opens OneCare Test
Prerelease versions of
security program are available
for free download...
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30.11.2005Latest Firefox beta passes Acid2 test, IE8 claims to pass also
After a screenshot on MSDN appeared to show an IE8 beta passing an accepted Web standards test, some came to the only conclusion they could: that the
test had to be broken...
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21.12.2007Still more questions than answers about Microsoft Morro
Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft’s announcement this week of
plans for a new, free antimalware
service and the end of life of its Windows Live OneCare product has spawned a bunch of new questions among customers, partners and industry
watchers.
While
Windows Live OneCare was no barn burner, in
terms of marketshare, Microsoft typically gives its products/services at least three releases before killing them. And
the 3.0 release of OneCare was imminent in fact, the
Microsoft Update team blogged at the end of October that
customers should expect to see it
soon.
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22.11.2008Windows Live OneCare gets
certified
The Windows Live OneCare team
can breathe a little easier
today. OneCare has been
officially certified by ICSA
Labs and West Coast Labs. This
means that two of the world's
most trusted security firms
have deemed that WL OneCare is
now an effective way to
protect your computer from all
sorts of viruses and
malware.
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26.05.2006Microsoft's OneCare improves antivirus test ranking
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows
Live OneCare climbed from
March's dead last to 14th
place in a test of 17
antivirus programs, an
Austrian security researcher
reported today.
Andreas Cleminti's AV
Comparatives latest test
pitted the top antivirus
software against the
20,000-some threats that
debuted during the last three
months to measure how well
each could finger unknown
exploits. Cleminti stopped
updating each product's virus
database, or "signature,"
Feb. 2, but continued to probe
their defenses with every
newly discovered virus,
malicious script, worm,
Trojan, or backdoor until May
2.
"Even if most
antivirus products provide
daily or hourly
updates, without
heuristic/generic methods there is always a
time frame where the user is
not protected," Cleminti said
in the report issued today.
winbeta.org - 02.06.2007
Windows Live OneCare 2.5 RTMs
OneCare version 2.5, which went into public beta in early April, has just been released into production, and is available now by download at www.onecare.live.com. While the newest build (2.5.2900.3) won’t show much if anything in
the way of new features or UI, version 2.5 is expected to be included in Microsoft Equipt, as well as OneCare for Server (for SBS), which is expected
to be released later in the year. If previous upgrades are any indication, the new version should be rolling out to existing users in the coming days
and weeks, but you can download the final bits now, either as a trial, or to upgrade your current subscription.
jcxp.net - 08.07.2008
OneCare Was Not a Failure, Microsoft Exec Says
Critics asserting that Windows Live OneCare didn't succeed on its own have got it wrong, according to Microsoft's chief security advisor for
the EMEA region. Roger Halbheer, in a blog posting on Monday, said it was "nonsense" for anyone to suggest that Microsoft's consumer
antimalware security solution had somehow "failed." Last month, Microsoft announced that it planned to discontinue OneCare while simultaneously
saying it would offer a free anti malware solution code-named "Morro." OneCare is priced at $49.95 per year, but Halbheer noted that many people
just cannot afford the extra amount, especially in newer and arguably poorer markets.
Read full story.....
neowin.net - 03.12.2008
I say crapware; you say 'performance enhancer'
Mary Jo Foley: Do you consider Microsoft products like Windows Defender antispyware tool and Windows Live OneCare
security/management service to be crapware that you don’t want preloaded on your PC, or performance-enhancement tools?
In an e-mail exchange this week with a spokesperson for Microsoft’s OEM unit over what kinds of tweaks Microsoft is encouraging its PC partners to make to provide a
better end-to-end user experience, I learned that Microsoft is touting some of its products as de-crapifiers. Specifically, the Redmondians are
telling partners and customers that Windows Defender and Windows Live OneCare can be used to clean up their PCs so they run better and faster.
Here is part of the message I received from the Microsoft spokesperson...
winbeta.org - 02.08.2008
Microsoft Eyes SMB Security with OneCare for Server
Microsoft made some waves in the security industry when Windows Live OneCare made its debut two years ago. Roughly six months after the release of
Version 2.0, Microsoft has its eyes on the small and midsize business market and building out its anti-malware capabilities. Amy Barzdukas, senior
director for Windows Live OneCare, sat down with eWEEK's Brian Prince to discuss plans for the security offering and the upcoming release of OneCare
for Server.
winbeta.org - 14.05.2008
Microsoft Acknowledges Anti-Virus Failed VB100 Test
A Microsoft spokesperson
confirmed to BetaNews this
afternoon that it has learned
its Windows Live OneCare
anti-virus package has failed
a test conducted by the
respected British laboratory
Virus Bulletin ,
disqualifying it from carrying
the "VB100" logo
denoting 100% detection of a
selected battery of common
"in the wild" viruses...
betanews.com - 07.02.2007
Microsoft Acknowledges Vista Anti-Virus Failed VB100 Test
A Microsoft spokesperson
confirmed to BetaNews this
afternoon that it has learned
its Windows Live OneCare
anti-virus package has failed
a test conducted by the
respected British laboratory
Virus Bulletin ,
disqualifying it from carrying
the "VB100" logo
denoting 100% detection of a
selected battery of common
"in the wild" viruses...
betanews.com - 07.02.2007
Microsoft concedes: OneCare antivirus software 'not stellar'
Microsoft Corporation
yesterday acknowledged poor
test results of its OneCare
antivirus software, but
promised it would do better by
paying more attention to
malware actually in the wild.
Earlier this month, AV
Comparatives, a non-profit
site that tests the most
popular antivirus products,
found OneCare detected 82.4%
of nearly half a million
pieces of malware. Early last
month, Virus Bulletin, a
U.K.-based publication that
put 15 Vista security programs
up against January's
WildList, found that
Microsoft's Windows Live
OneCare 1.5 failed the test,
among four others.
" The recent detection
numbers were not stellar. We
missed capturing a VB100
in the
last test because we missed
one virus. As a result, we
have adopted new methodologies
to ... look more closely at
families of viruses that have
been found to be 'in the
wild,' found actively
spreading among users. We will
keep on working to acquire the
VB100 Award each time we are
tested by Virus Bulletin. You
will see our results gradually
and steadily increase until
they are on par with the other
majors in this arena ,"
wrote Jimmy Kuo, a member of
the Microsoft security
research and response team, on
a company blog. Kuo also noted
that Microsoft would put more
resources into identifying
what he called " truly
important malware ."
neowin.net - 17.03.2007
Test automation with Windows XP Embedded
Windows XP Embedded is essentially a developer-customized, slimmed-down version of
the Windows XP operating system intended for use on devices like game consoles, information kiosks, network appliances, and the like.
With the rapid growth in the use of mobile and embedded devices, this platform is increasingly important. But do you know enough about Windows XP
Embedded to develop for the platform or effectively test your applications there?
In the October issue of MSDN Magazine, Dr. James McCaffrey and Mike Hall, a Senior Product Manager in the Microsoft
Mobile and Embedded Devices group, explain how you can create
lightweight but powerful UI test automation for software systems that run on Windows XP Embedded.
Don't forget to browse the code
online.
You can get more Test Run insight in the MSDN Magazine archives,
or subscribe to the RSS feed for notification of new columns.
winbeta.org - 10.10.2007
Windows Live OneCare 2.5 beta ending, perpetual beta begins.
According to sources, following the official release of the final version of Windows Live OneCare 2.5, Microsoft sent out a flurry of e-mails to its
testers. First off, the software giant reminded its testers that the 2.5 Beta will expire on July 31, 2008, after which OneCare will no longer keep
itself up to date (both virus definitions and the actual software). Testers are urged to uninstall the beta and buy a full subscription, which is
offered to them at a discounted $24.95 a year for up to three PCs, until July 31, 2008.
With the beta wrapping up, Microsoft quickly
sent out another e-mail to certain testers asking if they wanted to continue to test new versions of the software. If the answer was yes, Microsoft
responded with a confirmation and then the next day, e-mailed that tester the details of the Windows Live OneCare Perpetual Beta program, an
invite-only group. Version 2.5 was all about under-the-hood improvements but based on what my source tells me about the Perpetual Beta, it seems that
Microsoft is now satisfied with the program's performance and is focusing on new features and functionality.
neowin.net - 19.07.2008
Windows Live OneCare randomly expires
Microsoft's Windows support forum found a throng of users yesterday complaining of their Windows Live OneCare subscriptions inexplicably showing up
as having been terminated...
betanews.com - 21.12.2007
Microsoft wants to play with your home network
With the release of version 2.0, Windows Live OneCare is no longer just for one PC; Microsoft now wants to inoculate entire home networks with its
computer care service.
When it launched OneCare in May 2006, Microsoft risked alienating its close security partners such as
Symantec and McAfee by entering a market it previously avoided. Now, the Redmond company is upping the ante by going after families with multiple PCs
in their homes.
Windows Live OneCare 2.0, which is sold as a retail package but branded like Microsoft's other online services,
includes a new centralized interface for monitoring the security of all computers on a network, and running maintenance tasks without having to visit
each PC manually.
jcxp.net - 16.11.2007
