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    Windows Live OneCare's Corporate Noose-Wearing Sibling

    Okay: Corporate Noose = Tie.  Eh? Too young?  But, who wears a tie these daze?

    Um.  I do, once in a while.  About a dozen times a year.  Bowties?  About twice a year.

    I digress.

    Before the marketing and branding police come down on me, that's my stab at a catchy title: not intended to be an official name.

    The name I'm hearing is is Windows Forefront, the business equivalent of Windows Live OneCareCheck out the product roadmap from the Forefront team.

    :: hides from the branding police again ::

    In an effort to redeem myself, Have I told you often enough how much I love OneCare?

    Thanks to Mary Jo Foley (who has significantly better sources than I do) for: "A new Microsoft-hosted security service in the making: Forefront Online".

    posted on Monday, October 29, 2007 7:58 PM

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    # re: Windows Live OneCare's Corporate Noose-Wearing Sibling 11/11/2007 8:42 AM Sonya Keith

    One Care is starting to offend me because it nags me to back up my file: but I havn't been able to! Also, I have a non-internet PC but OneCare nag me to go online and update! I want tools to be useful not naggy.

    # re: Windows Live OneCare's Corporate Noose-Wearing Sibling 11/12/2007 4:31 PM opsan

    OneCare backup is a cool and vital service, but if you don't want to use it, go into OneCare properties (right click on the OneCare icon, click 'open OneCare' and click settings).

    Click on the backup tab and switch backup off to stop the nagging. Suggest you get an external drive to do backups, however.

    # re: Windows Live OneCare's Corporate Noose-Wearing Sibling 11/16/2007 8:09 PM OffBeatMammal

    or for backups have a look at Windows Home Server. While it's not fully integrated into OneCare the 2.0 update (released today) is aware that you're using WHS to backup your machine and won't nag....

    are there non-internet connected machines any more?!

    # re: Windows Live OneCare's Corporate Noose-Wearing Sibling 11/26/2007 9:05 PM Sonya again

    yep, it's true. I carry the web around in my telephone and pray for a replacement laptop so at least one of the pc's is free to just do stand alone stuff - basic Microsoft Office functions for school papers by the teenager in my home and my ever growing manuscript collection. Hey, I never claimed to be cool!

    # re: Windows Live OneCare's Corporate Noose-Wearing Sibling 10/10/2008 5:41 AM iddaa

    OneCare backup is a cool and vital service, but if you don't want to use it, go into OneCare properties (right click on the OneCare icon, click 'open OneCare' and click settings).

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