Windows Defender Being Renamed
- Thread starter Corrine
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Yeah, I saw this yesterday at ghacks. Personally, I think it should have been named Microsoft Defender (or something else) right from day 1 when it was introduced with W8 to avoid confusion with their other identically named product, "Windows Defender", the anti-spyware only program that worked on W7 and earlier versions of Windows. Perhaps Microsoft Security Essentials? Or just Microsoft Security?
Oh well. I just hope beyond the name change, MS continues to enhance and improve what is already an excellent security solution (its what I use on all my systems - without reservation).
Oh well. I just hope beyond the name change, MS continues to enhance and improve what is already an excellent security solution (its what I use on all my systems - without reservation).
Yes, indeed, I agree with you that using the same Windows Defender name when it switched from being an anti-spyware program to an antivirus wasn't the best decision.
This is the right move and agree with it!
Yeah. I think the most difficult challenge will be training my brain to use the new name.
Perhaps it will be commonly called "Defender" just as Microsoft Edge is frequently referred to as "Edge", Microsoft Office as "Office".
Good point. We should start that movement now!
I don't know why they didn't keep Microsoft Security Essentials as the name, as that really seems to me to be what the parent of the current software is (not the original Windows Defender from XP).
Easy if they wanted to make it cross-platform, had started to gain brand recognition already on Win 7, and the AV companies can't have complained too much about the "Essentials" - aka non-premium - in the name, as it still gives them a good opportunity to sell AV on top.
Easy if they wanted to make it cross-platform, had started to gain brand recognition already on Win 7, and the AV companies can't have complained too much about the "Essentials" - aka non-premium - in the name, as it still gives them a good opportunity to sell AV on top.
It is very much the same.
True - but "opportunity to sell" and "reason to buy" are totally different - especially since in the real world, there is very little, if any, benefit in paying for something that really doesn't ensure freedom from compromise any better than the free product Microsoft offers. None of my personal systems, nor any of those I am responsible for have been compromised since W7 and MSE, and then W8/W10 and WD... errr... MD. So what incentive do I have to start paying recurring payments for something that provides nothing extra in return?
For the record, I call recurring payments, "bills". Who here wants another bill?
Nope, unless it is Bill.
Ahh shucks! Thanks.
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