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Vista, Antivirus: What If Allchin is Right?
Tuesday, November 14th, 2006
Let’s start by clearing up the most frequent mis-perception that emerged from our story last 
Thursday regarding Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin’s comments. As you’ll recall last Wednesday, Allchin held a telephone conference to announce Windows Vista’s release to manufacturing.
At that time, he never advised Vista users not to use antivirus software. What he did say was that he was so confident in Vista’s new "Defense-in-Depth" architecture and failsafes that, under limited circumstances, he would allow a family member to run the operating system without active anti-virus software. Thus, he implied that the operating system might not need antivirus software – at the very least, not in similar limited circumstances.
"Wow, you describe a specific situation and suddenly people extrapolate something completely different!" wrote Allchin on the Vista team blog on Friday. BetaNews | Vista, Antivirus: What If Allchin’s Right?
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