MS To Build Antivirus Into Win8: Boon Or Monopoly?

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Microsoft has quietly announced that it's planning on baking anti-virus protection right into the Windows 8 OS (http://www.itworld.com/software/226277/microsoft-include-anti-virus-windows-8-good-idea-or-monopoly). Users have been criticizing Windows' insecurity for years — but of course this move is raising howls of protest from anti-virus vendors (http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/14/windows-8-anti-virus-good-bad-news/), who have built a nice business out of Windows' security holes. Is this a good move by Microsoft, or a leveraging of their monopoly as bad as bundling Internet Explorer (http://slashdot.org/story/11/10/26/235219/antitrust-case-over-microsoft-ties-ie-10-to-win-8)?

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1814228/ms-to-build-antivirus-into-win8-boon-or-monopoly