Microsoft Pushes Ahead with OneCare

They way MS has been stealing key people from McAfee lately, the product can only get more mature.

I signed up for the Beta for Home Server. I have been waiting for a product like this for some time.

@dugbug

I am wondering the same thing. I have both Home Server and OneCare installed on our family's PCs (I tested the OneCare beta and got it for a discount), and I have to manually disable the backup part of the OneCare suite. It would be nice when OneCare detects a Home Server it turns the backup portion of itself off.

Speaking of Home Server, Microsoft has done a stellar job with Beta 2. I can log in to my server from anywhere, upload or download files, and if I select multiple files to download, it zips them into a single package. I can log in to any of my computers remotely and check on the status of my home server remotely. Recently, I had to restore a file from a backup, and the only steps I had to take were this: Click "View Backups" from the Home Server console. It then opened Explorer showing my hard drive as it looked at the last backup. I simply navigated to the file (or I could search for it), and copied it over. It was incredibly easy. I back up 3 computers, one is 24 gigs, another is 60, and the other one is another 30 or so. It has compressed the backups into 68 gigs! This includes every backup that takes place every night. Also, if a computer crashes, all I have to do is burn a restore CD, boot from the CD, and it will restore the last image. Anything and everthing about the Home Server is incredibly painless (other than issues that don't relate to the Home Server software, like figuring out how to forward ports from my router to enable the remote access).

I wonder where onecare and home server will collide. MS needs to sit the two groups down and have a nice long chat to make sure they work nicely together (for example, home server aspires to do all backups, analyzes health of network, etc).

Microsoft continues to embarrass itself with comments on copyright usage, poor products like Visat, One Care, and certain aspects of Office 2007. It's getting sad to see what was once a customer friendly company become so inept and childish...yes childish. That Paul keeps defending the foolish moves and other strange claims from this company isn't doing much for his opinions either.

If Windows lovers want their company to stay on top they had better have some serious conversation with them via whatever media they can muster. bill Gates needs to get back to work and clean house.

"I'm sure the next version will fair quite a bit better - for the average home user, this suite can't be beat for the the price."

Probablly. It definitely sounds interesting, though. I think they should rename the product "Windows OneCare" or "Microsoft OneCare".