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I am leaning toward this being the key point here. While Tech is making perfectly good sense (By the way, Tech, cool picture over in the blog.), it also does not seem to be the “industry standard” in that many, if not ‘most’ companies engaged in such things that require progressive program writing/coding seem to feel the information releases with a given program written and released is the norm and not the exception, regardless of how many customers actually utilize the information. I think it is the few that do make the effort to learn and keep up with updates, etc. that are the ones that will be having the most impact on company reputation as they will be the most likely to post their opinions and feedback on the Net.
reesd has already noted that ‘most’ other malware fighters are providing information pages and I think about Microsoft that always provides details on any update, no matter how light and seemingly insignificant the update. True, there is more money coming in to be able to spend on such work, but how about other freeware providers – do they also supply such information as noted by reesd?
BUT I sure hope it doesn’t sound like I’m advocating one position or another – I’m not at all. I do think, though, there’s no harm in discussing the issue. I suspect some discussions that produce ideas on this board produce slight, maybe more than slight, changes in the Avast boardroom/product. That’s got to be good and so, by extension, discussion is good.
I do, though, agree with some posts above that maybe that page to which one is sent is a little more than misleading and that might not be so good for the company image, if I may be so bold as to opine.