Bill Gates’ announcement at the RSA security conference today also included the bombshell that Microsoft will provide a consumer-level antivirus product sooner than anyone thinks.
Gates expanded on Microsoft’s recently announced plans to acquire security vendor Sybari Software Inc., which provides solutions to help protect messaging and collaboration servers from malicious software. Gates noted that when the acquisition is closed, Microsoft intends to ship a Microsoft engine, based on the GeCAD technology acquired in 2003, as one of the multiple scanning engines supported by Sybari’s flagship Antigen software. Gates further noted that the Microsoft engine would also be integrated into a broad consumer offering by the end of this year.
This should be interesting.
So…Will these additions to AV services, the anti-spyware services, the media playsforsure services and the internet and desktop search services add to the monopoly charges??