Microsoft Security Essentials available FREE to Small Businesses in October!
As originally posted via Microsoft’s Eric Ligman’s blog:
“As we all know, small businesses are under incredible pressure to:
- Reduce operating costs
- Improve productivity
- Grow their business
- Do all of this in a very challenging economic climate
It’s also no secret that most small businesses today do not have a dedicated IT professional on staff to manage their IT resources (which you may recall is why we originally launched the Small Business Specialist Community of partners worldwide). Small business owners and employees are focused on running their business, not managing complicated IT infrastructure.
For those reasons, we are extremely excited today to let you know that Microsoft is making its Microsoft Security Essentials available to small businesses on up to 10 PCs for FREE, beginning in early October! By providing Microsoft Security Essentials to small businesses free of charge, Microsoft extends its commitment to help these companies save money and grow their business by offering no-cost protection from viruses, spyware and other malicious threats.
Not familiar with Microsoft Security Essentials? In many ways, Microsoft Security Essentials is an excellent solution for your small business. It is very easy to get and very simple to use. The software requires no registration, trials or renewals and is available for download directly from Microsoft. There is also no need to have other cumbersome security programs installed on your PCs since Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection to address the ongoing security needs of a genuine Windows PC, helping to protect it from viruses, spyware and other malicious threats. Perhaps best of all; however, is that Microsoft Security Essentials is designed to run quietly in the background, enabling you to continue using your PC – and running your small business – without constant interruptions.”
Find out more here:
https://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/default.aspx
Eric’s original blog posting here:
The related press release announcement:
https://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/Features/2010/sep10/09-22SecurityEssentials.mspx