[RayChuang88]

I think people forget that Windows 7 is probably the best version of Windows since Windows 2000 Professional--I find it very stable and recovery from any program crash is most impressive. Also, the current version of Microsoft Security Essentials (which is free to download and use) is an excellent program, and Version 3.0 is due in a couple of months, which makes it even better.

And this is before Windows 8 arrives circa September-October 2012....

[sigzero]

From what I have seen and played with on Windows 8...sucks. Might be Windows 7 is the best for a long time.

[dennisw]

Microsoft Security Essentials is very good and free. It is all the security I use on my Win7 home computer. But I think corporations and businesses need more security than that. Maybe Kapersky

Microsoft Security Essentials could have come out years ago but Microsoft was scared of another anti-trust suit. But with Apple becoming real competition.....Then MS knew they would not be subject to anti-trust