Windows OneCare dead – Microsoft says it’s not

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Already, just after 3 years of the release of Windows Live OneCare, Microsoft is stopping the production and support of OneCare. Microsoft has “signed the death sentence” for the “all-in-one PC-care solution” say a popular Microsoft new source SoftPedia. The death sentence was November 18, 2008.

Come June 2009, sales of the Windows Live OneCare licenses will not be sold anymore. Microsoft stated that OneCare wasn’t a failure, but more like a strategy designed to deliver a solution focused more on customer protection.

More or less, they were saying that OneCare wasn’t enough to protect their users, so it kinda failed. Like Vista, they learned from their first “superior” product.

So I bet you are dying to know if Microsoft is going to even come out with another all in one antivirus, anti malware, and other anti’s? That’s where the all out successor of Windows Live OneCare comes in.

Code named Morro will be released by Microsoft, for free to all it’s users. Yes, free to all of Microsoft Windows’ users. And this just might be the first free program that does what it’s users want.

Ok now what about the current members and users that will have bought Windows Live OneCare in June 2009? Those people still will be able to use OneCare. Only until their subscription ends. Microsoft kinda cares :)

More information can be found here on SoftPedia’s site.

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Microsoft on Tuesday said it is changing its strategy for offering PC antivirus software, with plans to discontinue its subscription-based consumer security suite and instead offer individuals free software to protect their PCs.

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