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OneCare discontinued; new security solution at no costs June 2009

That’s some news from the Windows Live OneCare Team Blog, OneCare will be discontinued and a new security solution will be released at no costs in June 2009. Don’t know how the new product will look like, but OneCare has been running on all my PC’s and I really did like it.

“The new solution will deliver the same core protection against malware but will not include many of additional non-security features found in many other consumer security suites”, according the press release of yesterday.

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Posted: Wed, Nov 19 2008 9:46 by jubo | with 2 comment(s)
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SB said:

Well that's a real let down. I have been using this product after successive disappointments from McAfee and Symantec in their performance.  Plus, for many home users, all the backup and tuning features were a plus.  I have many family members that don't have the desire to spend time learning how to backup their data - I could get them turned onto OneCare, buy a USB hard disk, and tell them to make sure their computers were left on overnight on a certain day of the week and OneCare would backup and tune up their systems automatically. One of the best features was just how OneCare "knew" what was user data and what wasn't!

So Microsoft's ideal solution is to take away the automatable features and just provide antimalware protection?  If they were smart, they would rebrand it and make the entire package free. Frustrating.

# July 12, 2009 10:08 AM

ed okeefe said:

I have ONE CARE on my Laptop> Added it to my PC. Iam getting renewal notices as to the PC even though the laptop subscription is still good. Help!

Is Morro now available in NY ?

# July 25, 2009 1:05 PM