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 has a billion computers out in the wild gathering data on malware. Windows defender updates itself via windows update every 2 hours. Nothing else on the planet comes close by a wide margin. There are advantages to being spied upon.

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