HEMI-Powered wrote:

John John added these comments in the current discussion du jour
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If it is so great why haven't they (Microsoft OneCare)
included a registry cleaner in their product? Maybe it's
because registry cleaning provides too great risks of damages
while doing nothing to improve performance...


For reasons known only to Bill Gates and God - is that the same
thing? - MS has eshewed all kinds of useful utilities and allowed
the 3rd party folks to take center stage. I've always wondered
what MS might've been able to do had they really tried.
Seriously, with no hint whatsoever about MS bashing, who better
to write competant utilities than the designer/builder of the
O/S?

Microsoft didn't write the OneCare utilities, nor did they write the
registry cleaner that is mentioned on their web site, these utilities
were written by what was previously Giant Software, Microsoft bought
them out so that they could expand their business and get into the AV
business. If my memory serves me well the total AV business is pegged
at about 12 billion dollars a year and it is a market that Microsoft
would dearly love to get a share of.

Of course Microsoft is rewriting and reassessing the Giant/OneCare
utilities that it ships but the bulk of these utilities were not written
by Microsoft. Until Giant was bought out by Microsoft many people had
never even heard of them before.

John