kaled - 11:53 am on Nov 21, 2008 (gmt 0)

If supplied free with new PCs, this will certainly harm the fortunes of those AV suppliers that have their products bundled with new PCs today. However, since I'm not aware of any such product that is worth having, I'm not overly concerned by this policy.

There is an anti-trust argument here, but not a big one. If the user is given a choice of AV software at installation, I think that should be sufficient. Perhaps this is something that OEM installation disks could provide. And if they did, maybe they could offer other choices such as different browsers. It has puzzled me for some time that AV software is commonly bundled with new PCs but, for instance, Firefox is not.

Kaled.