Microsoft is (by far) the dominant player in the computer operating systems market, but it’s always been a laggard in the computer security and antivirus arena. The company’s most recent foray into computer security—Windows Live OneCare—was greeted with little enthusiasm by the Windows security community—in fact, one antivirus evaluator decided to stop evaluating it altogether because it lagged so far behind the industry. Microsoft defended OneCare and continued its development, but the service failed to attract significant numbers of users and, eventually, Microsoft threw in the towel, announcing late last year it would stop selling OneCare subscriptions on June 30, 2009 and begin offering a free security and antivirus tool dubbed “Morro” around the same time.
