Over 1.5 Million Microsoft Security Essentials Downloads in One Week

MSE and WLE are two downloads that will be the two first installs on my new Windows 7 PC (when I buy one). I only wish MS would include MSE in WLE, but I'm not holding my breathe on that one.

panache The definition you posted is a perfect example of why Apple's taking multi-touch mass-market is NOT innovation by that very definition. It was not something "new" nor was it a change to something existing. Multitouch had been around for years. Secondly, if we were to use your definition that "if they make it popular it's their innovation no matter who did it first" then Microsoft, with 90+% of the personal computer market has virtually ALL the innovation in computing. I suspect you don't think that's a good redefinition in that case. So, shall we stick with the definition that's both in the dictionary and in common use?

"The definition you posted is a perfect example of why Apple's taking multi-touch mass-market is NOT innovation by that very definition. It was not something "new" nor was it a change to something existing. Multitouch had been around for years." No one said Apple invented it. Apple created a form of touch that innovated they way people use it, they way application are interfaced with. The massive success of the iPhone has led to what? Lots of phone makers trying to clone the success of WinMo....NOT. No you have WebOS, RIM and Android trying to make an iPhone killer. All of which have fully surpassed WinMO in terms of innovation/features and are trying to catch the iPhone. Only a total idiot would deny this.

rr0de So which of those 7 are you saying are innovations in operating system technology? Which didn't exist prior to Apple creating them? Are things really so bad in the Apple world now that you count version packaging as "an Apple Innovation"? That's just sad.

Mike MSN Galos' keyboard is smoking.... Must be a slow day at work !

Is it possible to remove some background noise by moderating some MSN Galos posts !!?? It's dizzying !!! %-/

holy crap this blog has gotten out of control =O

Snow Leopard also has better battery life. "Windows 7, the new Vista." (tm) All the same positive things were being said about Vista when it came out. Windows 7 (6.1) is another dud. XP forever.

Thanks for responding to your own question Mike... "But, feel free to tell us all those great OS innovations Apple has given the industry in, say, the last 20 years, (I'll grant that there were some real innovations in Lisa and the Laserwriter printer) It shouldn't be hard since you're effectively saying that 80% of the difference between System 7 and OS X 10.6 were "Apple innovations" and not copied from other places." I answered you ludicrous question with few answers. Do you want more? 1. Preview is a great example with no Windows 7 equivalent. I can view any Office 2007 document with out having office installed and many more. I dont even install Adobe reader on OS X as preview is faster, lighter and already installed. 2. Spotlight just so much better than Windows search. 3. Application installing and removal is drag and drop. 4. Simple Wifi, something all Vista and 7 users wish they had. 5. UAC that does not annoy or blank the screen, which on lower powered systems make you think the PC locked. 6. The ability to format a external drive with FAT 32 larger than 32gig partitions. You know so you can fill it full of movies and then plug it into your Xbox 360 that CANT read NTFS partitions. 7. Network file copy speeds that blow away Vista/7. Want more? Apparently according the CNET comparison today, SL will boot up, shutdown and many other operations faster than Vista...or I mean 7.

I'm not sure way this story is being peddled as good news. All the MS shills seem to be overlooking this little fact: "Computers reporting detections up to October 6: almost four million detections on 535,752 distinct machines. The detections are eight times the machine count because many computers are infected with multiple threats." If 44% of the downloads of MSE where for Windows 7. It would seem logical to infer a lot of Win 7 users are still getting malware infections. Not good news at all, if you ask me.

EricoF3, now that is some first rate trolling of you, and so extremely clever. When you first started popping up I thought you were drunk all the time, turns out you're just foreign. Not a lot of difference really.

Wow. Now we've got one idiot saying anyone not American is the equivalent of a drunk and another who, when he can't come up with any innovations from his pet company switches over to personal attacks. That 0.25% sure are showing their best side today.

What I came up with, Windows 7 CANT do out of the box. They are things that you cant do unless you 3rd part software. Little things that people actually use, like print/save in app to PDF. Or mount a ISO and access it. Not have to choose from so many version and just get Ultimate. Innovation is loose term. My examples are of how Apple innovates the user experience by focusing on the things they use most and getting it right vs having a huge list of things it can do but most users dont use. MS is not with out its innovations. Xbox Live is the best Multi-player experience there is in gaming. Its online communications ability set the bar. They did not event any of it, I used teamspeak years ago in PC gaming but they took it to the next step like Apple did with the touch interface. Too bad the 360 is such a hunk of crap. Exchange is another innovation from Microsoft. They did not invent email, but it has been the corporate communication application to emulate and still is. MS is great at taking an existing idea and standardizing it through its market dominance and mountains of cash. The 3rd version of most Microsoft products is when they get good. If the stick with console gaming the Xbox 720 should be a very good piece of hardware.

yes!, when mikegalos busts out with straight up name calling, you know he's at the end of his tether. glad to have helped push him over the edge.

Man I really do need to stop by more and read this stuff. Its pure comic relief. Paul that wrap up reviews of Windows 7 was scary. Can you put any more Apple hate in it? Leo called you a Microsoft apologist this week. I almost spit hot tea on my monitor at work. Note to self, shut the office door so co-workers wont here you laughing so much when listening to pod casts. Mikey, brother I feel for you. You need help in serious way. You so loathe Apple, I am not sure if you are Paul are more whacked? Did your mama dump your daddy for the founder of UNIX or something? The phrase "better living through chemicals" comes to mind when I read your posts. Sometimes I think you are fake, like the fake SJ. No one can really be like you in real life can they? Ikethchum I have been looking out for all of that Zune HD/WinMo 6.5 app love you spoke so much about. I hear crickets more than anything. Oh that and stories of how the whole Winmo, Pink, Sidekick world is coming apart over there at Redmond. It will interesting to see if you have to eat some humble pie a year from now. On the Microsoft side of things. I got to play with Group Policy preferences in Windows 2008 R2 quite a bit this week. They go a long way to eliminating lots of crapy little vb scripts that glue things together in the corporate world. Hat is off to MS for a fine job. Until next time gents, have a great weekend!

rr0de And if that weren't stuff that had already been in the Windows kernel the Grand Central Dispatch stuff might be innovative. But, hey, at least, for once, Apple's out ahead of Linux. On the other hand, being ahead of a group best known for cloning other people's ideas onto a clone of an ancient OS is not exactly a big win for "innovation". It's a bit like taking the fake Gucci watchband from one street vendor and attaching it to a fake Rolex from another and claiming you're a watchmaker.

"If you guys all want to think that only Apple or only Microsoft are innovation...again, you are simple minded." This. Fact is, all the companies can pull innovation. Brand loyalty is sickening. On one side, I see Microsoft zealots. On another, I see robertsjoe and logjamming who are fanatical for Apple. ...Ugh. I feel embarrassed using ANY form of OS when I read posts like these.

rr0de Microsoft not only gives out a ton of code under their two certified licences they also have pushed to get their data formats such as docx, pptx, xlsx listed as open international standards that anyone can implement. For example of a major chunk of very valuable code that Microsoft has made available you might notice the open source Moonlight project which is a public version of Silverlight which was done by Miguel de Icaza's Mono team with help and code from Microsoft. You might also note that Microsoft was the one who pushed to make .NET a public standard throught ECMA which allowed the Mono team to produce their version. As for you not being able to find projects on CodePlex, that's probably you not looking very thoroughly. According to the Wikipedia page on it, CodePlex "has accumulated 10,334 projects as of July 23, 2009." I'd say that's a little more than a site that's "rather slim with some amazing products written in .NET like a Google book downloader".

Mike let me pop your bubble about the Red Hat stuff. Microsoft is not in the driving seat when it comes to VM technology. VMware owns this space and in a big way. Typical of Microsoft they will do anything to gain support for Hyper V, while they are behind. So this iterop with Red Hat is to help Microsoft gain market share. If MS owned the VM technology space they would give Red Hat the finger. This is typical of Microsoft, the whole embrace, extend, extinguish. Basically realize there is an emerging market they are not part of, (the Internet/IE), purchase a player (Connectix), give it away free, work with rivals to gain support for their solution, gain market share, own the market, cut the rivals off at the knees. This speaks to the innovation factor greatly. From a purely business viewpoint, its perfectly fine. Shareholders win. Consumers dont but eff them right? Cisco is very good at this as well. They are very good at not being part of a new segment and just flat out purchasing the leader. So much so that I have had network equipment from Cisco that has a Cisco sticker over the original etched on vendor name, before Cisco could make new face plates.

lotsa So what you're saying is: * The iPod, which was concieved as the first of an otherwise cancelled set of Mac add-on devices designed to boost flagging Mac sales, needed Windows to succeed * The customers were going to get Windows compatibility regardless of what Apple wanted * Apple conceded their strategic plan to boost sales of the Mac platform so they could become a Windows PC peripheral vendor Sounds like you actually agree with Waethorn's assertion that the iPod only succeeds as a Windows peripheral device.

On a serious note.... Can any of the 'Apple Zeolots' please explain to me WHY you guys insist on trolling EVERY Windows based website? You guys are like some fanatic religious cult trying to convert new members. Is this the ONLY thing your Macs are good for? It must be, since that's all we ever see you guys doing with them. Do you realize how bad you make Mac users look?