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Waethorn — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:14:02 GMT

"One Care's reputation as a quality AV is suspect, it frequently ranks at or near the bottom of most AV Comparatives studies."

Sorry, but you're wrong there. It happened on AV-Comparatives.org and has long since been improved. AV-Comparatives.org scores keep changing too. Take NOD32 for instance: when OneCare was doing low in comparative tests, NOD32 was the best. Now it's fallen several places since then. Symantec has also improved dramatically from what it was while McAfee has fallen, and yet another unknown - TrustPort Antivirus Workstation - has taken the lead in the last series of tests.

(Does that mean that Leo is going to start recommending it, instead of NOD32, Paul?)

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DRWAM — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:45:52 GMT

JohnP, that's pretty funny. If MS gave away a security suite on a Vista PC, I agree that the world would call it monopolistic behavior, when they were only trying to improve security for free. If you think about it, MS is lucky that it didn't happen when a Firewall was included with XP and Vista. God forbid they shut out Symantec from the Firewall business!

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whiplash55 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:34:28 GMT

The deal itself isn't bad, especially if you want everything in it. One Care's reputation as a quality AV is suspect, it frequently ranks at or near the bottom of most AV Comparatives studies. Software subscription models work, when they provide value to the customer. Paying $69 dollars for Equip isn't bad, throw in Outlook and toss One Care and it would work for me. Paying a subscription allows you to pay in inflation adjusted $ each year providing they don't raise the price. So the price decreases every year. It also allows people who have a hard time swallowing the large upfront cost of Office, to use the best office suite out there.

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johnpapola — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:08:19 GMT

"It's just sad to see Windows fanboys (like the author of this blog) and his minions live in a world of make-believe."

I think Paul is a very fair critic of Microsoft and Windows. Have you listened to Windows Weekly? He rips Microsoft a new one big time almost every episode. And he's generally given very good reviews to Apple's products. He's no Waethorn.

He's just gotten very brittle about mac users. He shouldn't, since it's part of his job to tolerate the full discourse on his site, but so be it. I call him out on it constantly.

And to that end, why stoke the flames by trolling in the Windows-centric posts? Microsoft matters to our world as mac users less and less and that's a good thing. We can choose to buy their stuff when it's good and ignore it when it's bad. Not fully yet, but it's getting there. So, in the spirit of the high ground, let's leave these guys to their Windows stuff and keep the focus on Paul's ridiculous baiting of mac users and his strawman "iCabal" when the posts fly in that direction.

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drylight — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:30:18 GMT

"With all due respect to my fellow mac users... why do you guys care? Let the Windows-only threads be just that. Don't troll in articles that don't affect our platform of choice with MS-bashing and we can take the high road when the haters pour into our stories."

It's just sad to see Windows fanboys (like the author of this blog) and his minions live in a world of make-believe.

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johnpapola — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:58:13 GMT

With all due respect to my fellow mac users... why do you guys care? Let the Windows-only threads be just that. Don't troll in articles that don't affect our platform of choice with MS-bashing and we can take the high road when the haters pour into our stories.

Microsoft is trying to find never ways to make money... um... because they're a business. If Microsoft bundled the security software, people would cry "monopoly bundling" and it would be. Vista appears to be dramatically more secure, so it looks like they're doing a decent job on that front.

Either way, it doesn't affect what I buy and use, so I could care less.

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drylight — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:41:44 GMT

Let me get this straight, the company that sells you the operating system then sells you a separate product to protect you from the security problems of the operating system you already paid them for?

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Waethorn — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:53:37 GMT

@losta

I should point out to you that federally-registered charities (with tax exemptions et al) actually get software much cheaper through a volume license agreement.

They can get Office Professional Plus 2007 for about the same price as a retail copy of Office Home & Student 2007. However, they do have to provide their charity registration numbers to apply. Non-registered non-profits can just buy off-the-shelf educational/home-use software at retail (where available), or other non-retail education SKU's through an education reseller.

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Waethorn — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:45:19 GMT

"The software is not licensed for use in any commercial, non-profit, or revenue-generating business activities."

"God forbid you should make a flier for the Cancer Run using this software. You just violated the EULA."

"Ridiculous."

That's right. Your statement sure is!

Obviously a "Cancer Run" would be non-profit or charitable, so it wouldn't violate the EULA one iota. Obviously.

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lotsamystuff — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:21:13 GMT

"If you said they kill kittens for comic relief in their board meetings, there would be a sizable audience willing to believe and propagate the FUD."

That's just ridiculous.

Everyone knows they kill PUPPIES.

;-)

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RaaJ — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:43:40 GMT

EULAs are made to provide a very broad protection to the software provider's rights - and the extent to which they are enforceable in a court of law, and the extent to which the owner would be willing to prosecute fringe cases of violation like using the Office Home and Student edition to make a flyer for a Cancer Run is a tenuous argument at best.

Nice strawman, though. Fire away. It is Microsoft afterall. If you said they kill kittens for comic relief in their board meetings, there would be a sizable audience willing to believe and propagate the FUD.

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lotsamystuff — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:31:00 GMT

"You must accept the Microsoft Service Agreement before you can use Microsoft Equipt. You can read the Microsoft Service Agreement at www.microsoft.com/useterms. "

Yeah, except "Equipt" isn't on the list.

But wait! There's an agreement for "Microsoft Office Home and Student" that reads in part:

"The software is not licensed for use in any commercial, non-profit, or revenue-generating business activities."

God forbid you should make a flier for the Cancer Run using this software. You just violated the EULA.

Ridiculous.