http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20745 By Nick Farrell 17 January 2005 AN ANALYST at corporate crystal ball gazers, JP Morgan, is predicting that the Mighty Microsoft will penetrate the anti-virus market by February 15th. Adam Holt says that he sees Supreme Vole Bill Gates standing before a large group of people showing them his latest big offering. It looks like it might be the RSA Security conference in San Francisco on February 15, where Gates is down as the guest speaker Hold didn't say if he saw people applauding or booing, but he expects the program to be on sale in the third quarter, probably as a subscription service, to compete with Symantec and McAfee. There might be several different protection programs bungled, er, bundled into the service. A spokesVole declined to comment on the astounding predictions when Bloomburg hacks rang her up. However, we have to admit it is a pretty good bet that it will happen. Our very own INQ augurer reports that the liver of the lamb he hit with his Jaguar over the weekend, indicated somewhere along the ides of February for the announcement too. Microsoft bought AV maker Giant last month and promptly released its anti-spyware hastily re-dressed in Vole's colours. Giant has other AV software which probably just needs a similar treatment before becoming VoleWare. _________________________________________ Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB) Everything is Vulnerable - http://www.osvdb.org/
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