Trying out Windows 7? Surprises this time around include several antimalware vendors being ready to roll with support for the new operating system. This is a stark contrast to the release of Windows Vista when only McAfee was ready to support the now ill-fated system.
Ina Fried has a nice write up over on CNET.
From CNET:
This time around, it is AVG, Kaspersky, and Symantec that have products that are being touted from Microsoft’s site. McAfee said it will have support by the time Windows 7 launches, while Trend Micro is working to have a compatible product in the next month or so.
“It is great to see that these partners were able to have their solutions working so early in our development process,” Microsoft’s Brandon LeBlanc said in a blog posting.
Dave Cole, a senior director of product management at Symantec, said his company decided to offer up a test version of its Norton 360 product for use with Windows 7, even though the company knows there are still a few things left to work out.
Sounds like there is in fact hope (don’t make me eat my words) for security being addressed by inclusion of security vendors with the latest offering from Microsoft. As for the vendors, well, Symantec added this:
“We determined that we could run reasonably well under Windows 7,” Cole said. “There are bugs that we know about, but we’re comfortable enough with the effectiveness of the product that when they called us to participate we took them up on the offer.”
It’s only a beta release, it’s only a beta release, there is no spoon.
Read on.