Not a very good analogy-LOL. More like when seat belts came out, the OEM’s didn’t make us buy them from a 3rd party, did they?
It’s the same thing. We’re buying cars without seat belts.
So, if MS makes an A/V and ships it in their product, and I don’t like it, I buy something else. That’s fair, that’s a consumer making a choice. The same thing applies if it doesn’t work, I can choose to buy a 3rd party app., and/or not to buy MS’s product. Again, that’s the market in action by consumers making choices.
But, given the dangers, and the competition (who are providing a safer OS environment), we are buying incomplete Operating Systems, like a car without seatbelts.
BTW, I installed Security Essentials on my Win(64) machine and it seems to run nicely. I set the priority to low, and took about 2 hours to scan a 250GB drive, and my Ramomometer (Memory Usage) was only at 38%. Not bad, now let’s see if I catch a nasty. hahaha
No. Antivirus just isn’t an Operating System function. It’s an application. Remember how much trouble MS got in for merely including a web browsing application with their OS?
Not to torture the weak analogy even further, but the OS isn’t the whole car. It’s just the chassis. There’s lots of things that don’t belong there like Word Processing apps, CAD programs, and yes... antivirus apps.
Antivirus is essentially a subscription. It is a service that is continually updating patterns and engines in order to protect against continually evolving threats. It’s not a buy-it-once kind of thing.