If this article is correct:

[www.microsoft-watch.com]

Microsoft’s anti-virus/anti-spyware strategy is taking shape. Sources say Redmond’s prepping a fee-based bundle, which could go beta soon.

…am I the only person who thinks that this would be potential corporate marketing suicide, in the vein of some hypothetical product marketers who might be saying:

Nah mate, nuts to the European Union! If you take Internet Explorer out of Windows you’ll dis-incentivise people from paying for security patches and anti-spyware! And put a stop to all this proactive security bugfixing, right now – that’s taking food out of my baby’s mouth, that is!

It’d be lunatic, reminiscent of the Dilbert cartoon where the Engineers get told that they’ll get paid extra for finding and fixing bugs, and Wally says something like I’m gonna write me a new Corvette…