I don’t see any misrepresentation at all.

Holly Stewart, the senior program manager of the Microsoft Malware Protection Center

She is a Microsoft representative and did say that MSE was only to be considered as a baseline and designed to be that way. PC mag is not saying that, she (and by extension, MS) is.

It is commendable that MS is now providing information to other vendors but it is certain that they have admitted that their product is not the best.