Free Version's Engine Out Of Date And Win10 Support Null

So the folks over at LifeHacker, who sing the praises of Bitdefender year over year recently announced a couple of issues with the free version:

1. Free version is using an obsolete engine, which means inferior support compared with the paid products. True or false?

2. Free version does not support Win10, despite the verbiage of supporting Windows 10 everywhere, the supported platform document confirms no support for Windows 10. Why?

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unknown

1. False. The core engine is 11.0.1.12 and has been for a long time in all versions of BD and it's definitions and signatures are updated as BD makes them available - at least six times a day. It's unlikely the core will ever need updating as AVC is BD's flagship product and primary attack defense. The AVC components are background updated in Free on a regular basis. As well as a superb IDS and the one of the industry's best URL filtering, Free also provides 100% access to BD's cloud services. Lifehacker is misinformed and pathetic.

2. Haven't you heard? Windows 10 is the best OS that ever will be and doesn't need anything else other than itself. And simply by reading the "System Requirements" on the Free site, one can note Windows 10 is not listed. That may change at any moment.

Cheers.

unknown

Forgot to mention: MS recently reported Windows 10 is currently active on 200 million devices. In the Big Picture, that's peanuts.

pompste

So the folks over at LifeHacker, who sing the praises of Bitdefender year over year recently announced a couple of issues with the free version:

1. Free version is using an obsolete engine, which means inferior support compared with the paid products. True or false?

2. Free version does not support Win10, despite the verbiage of supporting Windows 10 everywhere, the supported platform document confirms no support for Windows 10. Why?

Free version had a version update about 8 days ago on my computer----to version 1.0.21.1109

pompste

Forgot to mention: MS recently reported Windows 10 is currently active on 200 million devices. In the Big Picture, that's peanuts.

I agree--that`s peanuts.

More people would get Windows 10 if they could "control" the monthly Windows 10 updates.

Currently there is "no option" at all to turn "off" the monthly updates in Windows 10--which means Microsoft downloads it`s updates whenever it wants to and users have to deal with their devices having to restart and install the updates at "un" convenient times.

In "previous" versions of Windows, users could control when to check for,download and install Windows updates when convenient for the user.