Ryan wrote:

Yeah, but think about the solutions that the consumers have when going to the store to purchase this. It’s pretty much just Norton or McAfee, and so OneCare isn’t all that bad in comparison to those. At least OneCare won’t expire on them assuming they renew the subscription every year, because a lot of people I help are running antivirus software that hasn’t been updated in years.

True, it wouldn’t be worse than an expired McAfee or Norton subscription, but using a good free anti-virus might be better and for sure a lot cheaper. In my opinion these prices are not good enough (except when a new version is going to be released soon), but without the OneCare subscription price they would be great

Although they probably wouldn’t drop the price by much if OneCare was removed. I think OneCare is more like a “freebie” for those that buy the subscription package. Their primary concern right now is to get people using Office 2007 so that making the switch to free alternatives like OpenOffice is more difficult.

Yeah, but think about the solutions that the consumers have when going to the store to purchase this. It’s pretty much just Norton or McAfee, and so OneCare isn’t all that bad in comparison to those. At least OneCare won’t expire on them assuming they renew the subscription every year, because a lot of people I help are running antivirus software that hasn’t been updated in years.

True, it wouldn’t be worse than an expired McAfee or Norton subscription, but using a good free anti-virus might be better and for sure a lot cheaper. In my opinion these prices are not good enough (except when a new version is going to be released soon), but without the OneCare subscription price they would be great

“The interesting thing is that Microsoft hasn’t said anything about this being offered in other countries besides the United States, and for that matter it appears that only Circuit City will be selling it. I’m not quite sure why Microsoft wouldn’t offer something like this for download online?”

Here we go again! Not available outside of the U.S.

My guess is that this is just a pilot run to see if the demand is there. If it starts to take off I’m sure it will be offered in other countries as well.

Yeah, but think about the solutions that the consumers have when going to the store to purchase this. It’s pretty much just Norton or McAfee, and so OneCare isn’t all that bad in comparison to those. At least OneCare won’t expire on them assuming they renew the subscription every year, because a lot of people I help are running antivirus software that hasn’t been updated in years.

That’s actually kind of funny. Whenever I saw the logo I associated it with the university, but never really thought about how you don’t even live in the United States.

“Here we go again! Not available outside of the U.S.”
and it appears you are from US (specifically U. of Oklahoma). So, what are you complaining about?

I used the O.U. logo because it matches with my name (Omar Upegui). I had no idea it was the University of Oklahoma logo. I’m located in Panama in Central America. Sorry about the confusion.

and it appears you are from US (specifically U. of Oklahoma). So, what are you complaining about?

Here we go again! Not available outside of the U.S.