December 20, 2004

Hotmail Dumps McAfee Anti-Virus

Starting today Microsoft is going to use Trend Micro instead of McAfee for anti-virus on Hotmail. The reason for the change is unclear although an Austrialian Microsoft executive said Trend Micro's products offer "deeper virus protection." Hotmail has 187 million web mail accounts. Notice I said accounts not individual customers. I hate when companies fantasize that all their accounts are individual users.