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Windows 10 does disable some third-party security software, Microsoft has admitted, but because of compatibility – not competitive – issues.
Redmond is currently being sued by security house Kaspersky Lab in the EU, Germany and Russia over alleged anti-competitive behavior because it bundles the Windows Defender security suite into its latest operating system. Kaspersky (and others) claim Microsoft is up to its Internet Explorer shenanigans again, but that's not so, said the operating system giant.
"Microsoft's application compatibility teams found that roughly 95 per cent of Windows 10 PCs had an antivirus application installed that was already compatible with Windows 10 Creators Update," said Rob Lefferts, director of security in the Windows and Devices group.
Source: The Register
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 22 2017, @08:57PM
On his blog, Robert Pogson has told the story a bunch of times about when he went to teach in the far north of Canada.
This was an impoverished community that, during the winter, could only get supplies/outside service people via airplane, a very expensive proposition.
What he found when he arrived was a pile of boxes with Windoze installed.
Through usage by the students, the systems were too infected to use.
He made the effort to disinfect them but, shortly thereafter, he was back to spending time cleaning them up again.
He did some research, discovered gratis and libre Linux (he had used Unix in his work as a scientist), downloaded it, and installed it.
The required maintenance workload on those boxes dropped to near zero. [google.com] (page) [mrpogson.com]
Same hardware; same users. Different results.
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