Risk: Informational
Microsoft have announced it will stop selling its consumer security service, Windows Live OneCare and re-release a new version as a free download by the end of 2009.
While competitors and analysts have pointed out that the company's service made few inroads in the consumer market since it was offered as a beta three years ago, Microsoft has focused beyond the death of OneCare to its rebirth as a free service.
Revamping the technology, company representatives say, could help Microsoft inoculate consumers whose Windows systems are most vulnerable to malicious code.