beta 2 coming soon. yep soon don't know when exactly but soon.

[Guest]

Microsoft Readies Second Anti-Spyware Beta
Windows Defender, Microsoft's free anti-spyware program that's been in beta
for more than a year, will shift into its second round of testing in the next
two months, developers for the Redmond, Wash. company said recently in an
online chat
http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=177104265&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News

Windows Defender Beta 2 Coming Soon
Well, Microsoft tells me that it's been busy rearchitecting the product--the
original was written in Visual Basic, I found out this week--and working to
integrate it with Windows Vista
http://www.windowsitpro.com/windows...rticleID/49199/windowspaulthurrott_49199.html

 

[Bill Sanderson]

That first article sure has some wierd stuff in it.

It claims beta1 only runs on XP.

It claims beta2, Windows Defender, will work on 2k, xp, 2003, and Vista,
"with additional editions for earlier Windows posted at some undisclosed
future date." That would be remarkable new information if accurate--I need
to read the chat, but I suspect this one is wrong too.

Paul Thurrott has thing straight, but is about a year behind the rest of us
in realizing that the beta1 product was written in VB.

Folks--read the chat transcript, and ignore the journalists, who are not big
on getting their facts straight,

 

[Guest]

Microsoft tend to change there mind when it comes to beta release date so we
will see if it's really coming soon.

 

[Bill Sanderson]

I'm not worried about this deadline. They've been stating shorter/sooner
dates, rather than longer dates. I think that is a good sign.