As with the browser-wars, so with the media player-onslaught, and now with the anti-virus solution battle, MS went from nothing to 20% of the market-share within one month’s time. The question is can MS do it again?
Microsoft’s anti-virus solution is booming in the United States. Because of the low price Windows Live OneCare made it to second in overall sales. OneCare equals 15,4% of all security suite segment sales and was sold over the counter for a mere 30 dollars.
“Microsoft’s startegy works because of the market share already won. I think that a lot of people in the industry were startled by this success of Windows Live OneCare during its first month” as NPD analyst Chris Swenson says.
Specially Symantec lost marketshare. The security gigant lost 10,1% from their May positioni. McAfee lost 3,3%, followed by Trend Micro with 1,3%. In the retailers channels Symantec with 59,8% is overall winner. Microsoft is now second, followed by Trend Micro with 8,9%, and McAfee with 7,1%.
First: Microsoft will force ‘better’ antivirus solutions in order to survive. Layered defense is against MS. I won’t trust if the cheese and the mouse are on the same place…
Second: Where can I find the actual marketshare for antivirus industry? I mean, one sufficient detailed that avast appears ;D
And by getting the anti-malware world aboard, they are in for their next bid. This thing we have to have an eye on, Microsoft has already some mighty thick fingers into the hardware pie and now, Intel is just a producing unit. The next thing that will be very strict is validation and DRM. We saw this partially coming in with their first Validation Tool Round, next time built into the kernel. Everything that is in violation of DRM or as Microsoft sees this, will be removed. This is what is projected through Paladium when it comes in, and it found so much criticism that the word Paladium was altered. They already stated that other OS is not going to have this. Some of what I tell here is futural music, but some of these tunes are already played.
Well since OneCare care is a suite everything has to be good and I believe the firewall element has been getting a slating in the Agnitum newsletter, doesn’t stop a single firewall leak test.
The firewall security experts at Agnitum have conducted an in-depth analysis of Microsoft's new OneCare Firewall, part of Microsoft's "Live" security initiative. The results are so far below industry standards that we felt obliged to share the results of our analysis with you.
Highlights of the report, which has been published by a number of online and print magazines, include:
The OneCare firewall failed all but the simplest leak tests and does not offer even the most basic intrusion detection capability, leaving users’ PCs wide open to being hijacked into a botnet;
The OneCare firewall database of pre-approved applications is very small, and adding each new application requires several user interactions and a reboot;
Application access rules are limited to ‘allowed’ and ‘not allowed’—users cannot configure different rules for different types or times of usage, such as allowing IE to connect with some but not all websites ;
Similar limitations apply to network file access and remote desktop operations ;
The Windows Defender anti-spyware component of OneCare imposes significant delays on program execution and is updated on a separate schedule than other OneCare components.
Thanks Polonus… but 15% of the market share is missing. Besides, it does not seem trustable… something on that article smells advertisement…
It will be good if Alwil post some official numbers here
Of course MS has done good things. It is quite silly to think otherwise. They have done good and they have done bad.
Not to mention the charity work Mr. Gates has done himself…regardless of the reasons he had…whether they be self motivated or not… Good is good if it benefits those in need.
No Mac… you’re not being fair. You’re trying to sell Macs :-*
98% of the world computers…, the very most maket share, tons of users… and, besides, there are A LOT of good MS programs and features. I just want (hope) that each one does his part here: OS is not application, application is not an antivirus, and so on.
