Why did the antivirus market change so drastically?

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When I was younger, the standard windows firewall was seen as weak and worth replacing asap with premium or strong free anti viruses, like Avast. What changed to make Windows Defender competitive? It looks like a few years ago something suddenly happened and now everybody on the market has great protection.

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Microsoft bought an AV company, GeCAD, in 2003. I was working for another AV company back then and that was one of the companies Microsoft considered as well buying.

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