Microsoft Security Essentials: number of users increase

The first time in 2009 by the developers in Redmond presented security solution called Microsoft Security Essentials seems to be more popular among Windows users.

In a belong report , published this week by the company OPSWAT, one takes a closer look at the number of users for security solutions. The reports show that the product of Microsoft is a worldwide market share of over 10 percent in fourth place behind Avast, Avira and AVG.

Demand for MSE compared

In this regard, the developer of Microsoft over the largest increase in users can look forward compared to last year. After all, they came in view of the number of users of Microsoft Security Essentials in the previous year to just over 7 percent.

Especially great is the demand for the free security solution from Microsoft apparently in North America – in the month of March. With a share of almost 15 percent of the product from Redmond secures itself in first place, followed by Avast, AVG and Norton AntiVirus.

The corresponding data were collected with the tool developed by OPSWAT AppRemover. On a voluntary basis to the users of this tool to send information about installed software to the company. For this report the data from more than 350,000 systems were evaluated.

Peter Molyneux is leaving Microsoft and Lionhead

Yesterday we announced that Games legend Peter Molyneux with the current development of the gaming industry is far from satisfactory and this has been strongly criticized. Recently, it is clear why: Molyneux leaves his studio Lionhead and indie developers.

As Molyneux (“Populous,” “Black & White”, “Fable”) recently via ‘ Twitter ‘has announced he returns which he himself founded in 1997 games studio Lionhead (which since 2006 has been a Microsoft subsidiary) back and comes to 22 Cans, an independent studio founded by his former colleague Tim Rance Lionhead. This is Molyneux on his position as creative director of Microsoft Studios Europe.

In an (apparently timed) interview with the gaming side ‘ Kotaku ‘confirmed the 52-year-old step: He’ll Lionhead after the completion of the Kinect game “Fable: The Journey” to leave.