Tag: onecare
Microsoft Equipt launching in UK next Monday: rent Office software
Microsoft has announced that it will be launching its Equipt software subscription service in the UK next week. We announced the service in July, when it became available to US customers for $70 per year.
The service offers Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007, Windows Live OneCare, and Windows Live tools for an annual subscription of £59.99 (the exchange rate rip-off is at work again). It will initially be sold through PC World.
Microsoft Equipt: subscription-based Office and OneCare software
Microsoft has announced that it will sell a subscription-based bundled version of its Office and OneCare software in the States later this month.
The $70 per year offering will enable users to gain access to the latest versions of the software without having to buy them outright. Whenever Microsoft updates the software (say, from Office 2007 to “Office 14” expected in 2009) users will automatically get the upgrade…
Microsoft admit Live OneCare should not have been rolled out
ZDNet managed to scoop an interview at CeBIT with a senior manager at Microsoft who admitted that Live OneCare, the consumer security product, should not have been launched when it was, being far from perfect and having pieces missing. The…
Microsoft's OneCare anti-virus software scraps email messages
It's one thing for an over-zealous email spam filter to incorrectly identify legitimate emails as spam, and move them into a separate folder, but it's something else when anti-virus software deletes existing messages. Microsoft has admitted that its new AV…
Microsoft's Live OneCare and McAfee software fails to secure Vista
Independent research released last week suggests that several of pieces of anti-virus software, including Microsoft's own latest offering, fail to fully protect Vista users. Virus Bulletin, together with some Oxfordshire-based security researchers, tested 15 anti-virus packages that claim to be…
Windows Live OneCare launches internationally
Though it had a lower profile than Vista, a major release of Windows Live OneCare launched last week in 17 countries including the UK. The software package provides a unified virus and spyware scanner, flexible file backup options, and support…
