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Earlier than rumor predicted, Microsoft is launching Windows Live OneCare today after a lengthy public beta. Robert McMillan at InfoWorld:
Microsoft is set to release a fully supported version of its Windows Live OneCare software, marking its entry into the security software market.OneCare will be available for download Wednesday on Microsoft’s Web site, a day earlier than expected. By Thursday, the software is expected to be widely available in U.S. retail stores, said Microsoft’s Samantha McManus, a business strategy manager with Windows Live OneCare.
The software will begin shipping outside the U.S. “within the next year,” she said, declining to say which country would be the first to follow the U.S. launch.
The OneCare web site is here and for reference, here’s the official press release.
Competitors Symantec and McAfee are readying their responses, Norton 360 (formerly codenamed Genesis) and Falcon respectively.
July 25th, 2006 at 11:50 AM
[...] But here’s a puzzle. Do you get the feeling that Windows Live marketing has gone AWOL since Martin Taylor’s disappearance? Windows Live OneCare and Windows Live Messenger got press releases when they shipped in May and June respectively (at which point Taylor left), but Windows Live Custom Domains and Windows Live Favorites just got posts in Microsoft blogs when they shipped in June, as did Windows Live Expo when it shipped in July. Now Windows Live Toolbar doesn’t even get a post in a Microsoft blog that I can find. [...]
July 25th, 2006 at 12:12 PM
[...] Looks like everybody is jumping into the PC security business. First, Microsoft launched OneCare, then AOL stuck its toe in the water and now it’s Yahoo: Yahoo, in partnership with Symantec, launched an Internet security software suite dubbed Norton Internet Security and designed to protect online users from threats like viruses and spyware, the companies said Tuesday. [...]
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:13 PM
[...] McAfee unleashes the Falcon which is their answer to Windows Live OneCare. [...]