Vista's Death Blow

The new Windows Vista is expected to give a deathblow to both virus producers and those that are protecting
end-users from these viruses. The reason why it will be so is the OS is said to be built in such a way that it will totally be immune from outside intruders. In case some minor problems are developed, as it is inevitable in most cases, Windows OneCare will take care of them, which means all the known anti-virus companies that are there in the first place because of a problem that is not going away will be out of business. The anti virus business that is estimated to be $4 billion a year is going to suffer a lot because OneCare will cut into their share of the business. At the same time companies like Semantics are complaining that if Vista is going to develop a problem, they have no means of protecting end-users because they are denied access to the codes of the new OS that is built from scratch and has not borrowed any from the unpopular earlier OS XP.

At the same time there are complaints that Microsoft is trying to be at many places at the same time by trying to accomplish many things as it was witnessed by its interest in the Zune, Xbox, and the OneCare anti-virus software. And as the company is not the best software writing company, such efforts could spread it thin and the quality of its core product the OS could suffer. Yet, considering the number of employees it has and its vast resources, it seems that it can handle more, and it has an ambition to play a leading role in what is happening over the Internet as it is just a natural route to follow, because it is lucrative.