To try and use that article to bash, condemn or say MSE is no good is skewing & misinterpreting what it is saying. Read some of the comments under the article, if you care to give credit to any of the ones that concur with my own view. People who like to knock MS products because it's supposed to be the cool & hip thing to do will take things & twist them to suit this effort.
Yes, yes, I know there are Folks who won't like what I'm saying, here & called me a 'fanboy' or something to try an knock any validity out of what I write & make themselves look right. Be that as it may.
I have been in IT a fair while, now and I won't recommend Norton or McAfee, even if I were paid to do so. I couldn't count how often I've had to remove Those & other brands of so-called security programs and their firewall offerings, from customers machines. Replaced w/ MSE, the prior problems were gone & the customers have had happy experiences since. There are some paid protection softwares that are good. There are good ones that are free.
There's been lots of stuff blow right by, say, Norton but, MSE would stop the stuff.
Before MSE came along, I used Avast & recommended it & gave it to my clients.
To interject here, in conversations w/ IT Pro colleagues @ any IT seminars & conferences all hold the same view towards MSE & against Norton/McAfee et al, as myself.
I have no interest in arguing, especially via typing. I will say, from the perspective & connection I've had w/ Microsoft over time, MS's interest AGAINST malware is huge, deep & paramount. And this includes offering MSE/Defender. Long ago Gates wanted to GIVE End Users FREE protection; those vendors
selling products balked @ that. But, finally we got OneCare, Defender, MSE & Windows Defender. A complete (A-V & A-M), free, embedded and ON by default protection. Because security & protecting End Users from the Net, the 'bad guys' and protecting End Users
from themselves was important to MS... and more important than charging those same people for security. It can, indeed to be seen as a moral issue while, people try to fault MS. Give it to them for free... put it in the OS, they don't have to look for something, DL it, install it, or have some kid in a big-box store sell them something nor even have to figure out how to enable it. This not only saves EUs trouble but, it guards against ignorance, ie people who don't use
anything, don't keep current w/ updates or renewals. MSE & WD are full automated, a quiet friend, constant & permanent.
To say the most widespread, widely used OS in the world is going to provide a crappy security is utter nonsense, not even logical.
Anyway, say what you like, bend what you want & extrapolate things said or written how you want to serve whatever purposes or notions you are trying to tell others (the word YOU is used in the impersonal, generic way, BTW).
MS does care immensely about security and protecting End Users. And (
fact is) MSE/WD is a good product and appealing in how it works & how much it costs. Security & protecting EUs is top of the list for me, too; as an IT Pro anything less or different would not be, in any good conscience, serving customers well or properly or ethically.
Sadly, the biggest threat to computer safety is, too often, in the chair facing the machine.
This is all I will say on the topic or in this thread.
Cheers,
Drew
Comparable to what the Big AV guys (Norton, McAfee, CA, Panda) are putting out there and charging $60 per year for. BTW, I just got an Email renewal notice on my NORTON Internet Security that my 2014 auto-renewal will be $69.95 up from $59.95 it has been for the last 3 yrs. 
