All About Microsoft reports that Microsoft is now planning to offer its free Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) antivirus/antimalware suite to small businesses
Offering MSE to small businesses is a change in policy. In May of this year, I had a number of small-business customers and partners asking me whether Microsoft would support them using MSE, since the company’s position had been that MSE was a consumer-only product. Microsoft execs told me no, repeating that “Microsoft Security Essentials continues to be available for consumers and home-based businesses. The Microsoft Security Essentials OEM Pre-installation Kit (OPK) was made available to OEM partners as a way to offer a pre-installed security solution on home use PCs.”Microsoft does an about-face; offers free Security Essentials to small businesses
