This is the
talk page for discussing improvements to the
Microsoft Security Essentials article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
Find sources: Google ( books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
Archives:
Index,
1Auto-archiving period: 90 days
![]() |
![]() | Microsoft Security Essentials is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
![]() | This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on November 23, 2012. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
![]() | This article is rated FA-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to multiple WikiProjects. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Frequently asked questions
|
![]() | This article is undergoing a
featured article review. A featured article should exemplify Wikipedia's very best work, and is therefore expected to
meet the criteria.
Please feel free to If the article has been moved from its initial review period to the Featured Article Removal Candidate (FARC) section, you may support or contest its removal. |
The article currently states that it runs on Windows XP. However, on official Microsoft pages, Windows XP is not listed at all. Citation 3 and 4 on the article in the Features section do not make reference to Windows XP at all. See this page as well: [1]. In addition, MSE on XP no longer receives updates since 14 July 2015 [2]. Therefore, MSE on XP is no longer the same product and does not provide the protection that it does for all the other OSes that are supported. Therefore I believe it should be clarified on this page that while it may "run", it should not be encouraged.
Also, there are some "system requirements" provided at the end of the Features section where it mentions Windows XP. However, that cited page no longer mentions Windows XP and the system requirements have changed.
For the header and the first paragraph of the features section, it says 'Windows 8 and 10' have "built-in AV protection". However, they actually provide more than that - please see the first link I provided - the tabulated set of features says differently, therefore I think the description needs to change from "AV protection" to "malware protection".
Also, the header and the first paragraph are not synchronised - they are phrased differently. I think it would be best that both paragraphs are kept in sync. Perhaps a template could be made here that could be used to populate each section so that they don't need to be edited separately?
The Development/Future section says at the end that MSE is "required" to be uninstalled before upgrading to Windows 8. However, this forum post [3] which was replied to by an official Microsoft spokesperson states that it doesn't have to be for Windows 10, and provides a method of getting around it. So this needs changing.
-- Byziden ( talk) 14:17, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
The article currently states that it runs on Windows XP. [~snip~]" You are right, this is a problem. Microsoft.com addresses the current version only. Wikipedia, which is an encyclopedia, is interested in the history. (Infobox, however, reflects the latest version only.) But we have sources besides Microsoft.com. AV-TEST.org that has tested Windows XP versions is just great. I'll get to work on this. Thanks for informing. I will make sure the prose makes it clear that only certain versions run on XP.
it says 'Windows 8 and 10' have "built-in AV protection". However, they actually provide more than that - please see the first link I provided." Two problems here:
the header and the first paragraph are not synchronised". By header, perhaps you mean the lead section? Slight difference in wording is okay, as long as there are no technical differences.
[~snip~] an official Microsoft spokesperson states that it doesn't have to be for Windows 10 [~snip~]." I am very sorry but you are badly mistaken in this case:
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on Microsoft Security Essentials. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018.
After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than
regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors
have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the
RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{
source check}}
(last update: 5 June 2024).
Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot ( Report bug) 15:20, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
Although signature updates continue to work on MSE on WinXP, the delivery mechanism (Windows Update) does not. MS continues to provide signature updates for offline users, which can be manually download for use in MSE on WinXP — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.162.148 ( talk) 07:26, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
I have started working on a Spoken Wikipedia recording for this article. Thanks! Camshaft64 ( Talk | Contributions) 06:21, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
I've tagged a few areas where the article could be improved. In particular some areas of the article are reliant on primary sourcing and three sections need updates to cover everything post 2013. (Windows 7's last enterprise update was in early 2023, I would be surprised if there hasn't been any critical comenary about this aging product during that time). Sohom ( talk) 14:24, 29 March 2024 (UTC)