Windows Live OneCare
How can one of Microsoft's own products be incompatible with Windows 7? I paid for a One Care subscription that is now useless. This is just inexcusable. Why would 3rd party developers make their software Windows 7-compatible when Microsoft wont bother for its own products?
May 17th, 2009 8:24pm

Please see any of the other posts on this subject. Microsoft announced they were discontinuing OneCare monthsbefore the Windows 7 beta program was even announced. As it stands, I believe it is still getting pulled from the market next month. There is no reason for Microsoft to make OneCare compatible with Windows 7 since 1) Windows 7 won't go RTM until months after OneCare is officially off the market, 2) they have never said that OneCare would be supported, and 3) a free successor to OneCare (Morro) is under development. OneCare is a XP and Vista product and will still work on those platforms. Windows 7 is a RC, not a mandatory upgrade or service pack. You are making a choice to use it as a developmental OS and (like many users of other security packages) need to find a package that works. If Microsoft stops shipping virus updates and bug fixes on XP and Vista then you have a right to a refund - if not, it still works on the platforms for which it was designed. I just don't see how it would ever make sense for Microsoft to put out a fix for OneCare so that you can use a discontnued product not intended to exist when Windows 7 is official. Sorry, but is up to you to find a working security package (there are even a few free ones out there). Not trying to be unsympathetic but if I hadn't tossed OneCare months ago, I would have had to change in the present tense. I also do not expect anything for my OneCare subscription that has about six months left....Stephen
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May 18th, 2009 7:47am

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