MSE available for FREE to Small Businesses in October !

Great point jimbo45. I know of quiet of few small businesses with 5 or 6 computers that should jump on this new deal.

Yes, it's really worth the news, especially in relation to the situation with the keys on Technet.

Truth be known a lot of small businesses were probably doing it anyway. Who's going to know unless you do an audit of their software licenses etc.

Looks like Microsoft is challenging the security "big boys". Be interesting to see how they respond, if at all.

frzwin7 said:

This is good news indeed!

By the way, it's been a few months now since the first beta of MSE was released.

a few months ???
where have you been ???

the first MSE-beta was released in September 2009...

2010-07-20 (July 20, 2010)
"Today we are announcing the beta for the next version of Microsoft Security Essentials. Microsoft Security Essentials was first released in September 2009"

Beta for Next Version of Microsoft Security Essentials Now Available

it´s a few month since MSEv2-beta was released....
i´ve been testing it since july....
and it works vey well, i haven´t noticed any real problems at all.
so you don´t have to wait for it´s "RELEASE"....

frzwin7 said:

Upon its release, numerous bugs were reported, and feedback/suggestions/comments flooded the Microsoft Connect site. I just hope MS listened to these beta testers and is now developing a whole new MSE! I can't wait for the second beta release!

oh yes, the first beta had some problems....
but those were fixed in the "final" release, i know since i tested the first beta myself, and discovered a few things....

the released first version has worked very well without any of those beta-problems, i used it for months until i decided to test for any differences in performance using only a-asquared (a2) or both a2 & MSE.