Two Wrongs

According to Forbes a Microsoft executive says:

"We will have a stand-alone antivirus product that is one of the things you can buy from Microsoft, but we're not announcing anything today," said Rich Kaplan, vice president for Microsoft's security business and technology unit.

All this recent business about Microsoft and antivirus software leads me to only one thought: abstracted away from reality. The antivirus software market exists because Microsoft hasn't created an operating system that's sufficiently secure and thereby immune to so many problems related to viruses, trojans, spyware and the like (the security issues have known and addressed for decades).

1. Your product doesn't do what it should. 2. This creates a new market for companies (Norton, McAfee, et al) who help clean up the mess resulting from your product not doing what it should. 3. Now you're going to jump in and compete in this market and outdo the companies who create products that exist because your product doesn't do what it should?

I'm not sure what's next. Maybe Gillette will start marketing dull razors so they can start selling bandages.