Microsoft AntiSpyware (Beta): a first look
Published: 11 Jan 2005
A major plank of Microsoft's corporate strategy has always been to buy products from its competitors, rather than pour resources into home-grown developments. Famously, back in 1980, when IBM was seeking an operating system for its PCs, Microsoft bought q-DOS (a.k.a 'Quick and Dirty Operating System') from developer Tim Paterson for $50,000 and called it MS-DOS. As we all know, MS-DOS licenses subsequently earned Microsoft billions.
With the purchase of anti-spyware specialist Giant in December 2004, Microsoft obtained the basis for its AntiSpyware product, which has now appeared in beta form. There are plenty of other anti-spyware programs available: the most popular, Ad-Aware, is available in a free version, although others are paid-for products. Life could become more difficult for the latter if the final version of Microsoft's tool becomes available for free.






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After installing this program on our WinXP Pro (SP... Anonymous -
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i am not very computer literate, but rel... Anonymous -
It would appear that Mr Leslie Pasq... Nick Barrett -
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I have used this so called anti spyware product si... Mr Leslie Pasque -
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Installed ms-antispyware today (25/02/05). It... Anonymous -
I installed ms-AntiSpyWare weeks ago and I fi... Andy Fisher -
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I've tried to use the program and have been gettin... Ricardo Alonso













