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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Market simply responded to demand and it made sense for Microsoft to incorporate more onboard solutions.
This is the same for many features. First they are mods, or add ons, or third party software, then they, or something similar gets rolled into the OS.
You are old enough to remember anti virus being rolled into Windows.. I’m old enough to remember the Windows part of Windows being rolled into it. Before Windows we used dos, and install 3rd party visual interfaces, such as [Norton Commander](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander)
Norton… where have I heard that before?
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