Quite frankly, I think the continuous consumer abuse by the windows antivirus vendors is something that Microsoft is listening to here, and making it much harde

Quite frankly, I think the continuous consumer abuse by the windows antivirus vendors is something that Microsoft is listening to here, and making it much harder for questionably efficacious software to put you into a perpetual license loop primarily fueled by scare tactics. Sweeney had an argument, and one that I think Microsoft is trying to address. Anti-virus software (including McAfee and Kaspersky) is responsible for so many daily fuckups in my corporate computing experience that I am aggressively removing it from every computer I can find, and I tell everyone I can do to the same. It is good that Microsoft is making them justify their existence, use less deceptive re-subscription tactics, and in general providing very stiff competition for them. In this specific case, it not monopoly tactics, this is pro-consumer competition. I hope people realize this, because I think most windows users read this and then immediately squinted and said, "Kaspersky, huh?" It took me over an hour to scrape that gunk out of the last windows 7 box I set up for my family, and I was happy Win10 kicked it to the curb for me on the upgrade I just helped with.