MS Buying Anti-Virus Company

[2ffat]

Microsoft is buying GeCAD Software Srl. They may plan on putting it into Longhorn.

http://www.searchsecurity.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci905762,00.html

James P. Cottingham

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
[tab][tab]Albert Einstein explaining his Theory of Relativity to a group of journalists.

 

[dkediger]

A possible return to the undocumented API wars?

With MS having created several Anti-Virus API's for Office and Exchange, will they give in to the temptation to make their product work faster/better by creating undocumented API's?

Be interesting to see how this shakes out. I tend to fall in the camp of spreading my eggs out over several baskets; on the other hand, this would be a great addition to a product like SBS, or as an add on service like they're doing with Win2003Server.

 

[2ffat]

MS has already decided to pull RAV (made by GeCAD) from the market. According to some this as one of the best Linux AV's on the market.

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/newsItem/0,289139,sid14_gci905958,00.html

James P. Cottingham

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.
[tab][tab]Albert Einstein explaining his Theory of Relativity to a group of journalists.