Free anti-virus from Microsoft.

As many of you know, I am a big fan of free.  Especially free utilities that make computing a little bit nicer.

Microsoft has just announced a new anti-virus application that will come in at first in a beta and possibly end up being free when it’s released.

I don’t know if this will get them as far anti-trust matters are involved, but I say let them give us stuff for free if they feel like it.

 

UPDATE 3-Microsoft will soon unveil free anti-virus software | Reuters

So who wants to get free stuff?

Microsoft is getting on the free stuff bandwagon with the SearchPerks program.

All you have to do is sign-up, let them watch you via small application (assuming you don't mind that sort of thing), and you get "tickets" as a reward for each search. Up to 25 tickets per day.

This kind of like Skee-ball for searching.

I think I'll test try it out. More on what I find later.

* You will have to use you IE 6+ to participate.

Marketing actually makes a difference...

I don't like being the M$ cheerleader. But I've been using M$ stuff like Office, Windows, SQL Server, Visual Studio, etc., for years.

For the most part I've been pretty happy with their stuff. Sometimes there are bugs, sometimes it's missing something that I'd really like to have. If it's bad I go looking for an alternative. Usually M$ catches up with the curve.

I found this site today, and wanted to say that sometimes a product is as good as its marketing.