Ces rapports serait accessible au commun des mortels ce qui n’était pas toujours le cas avec l’ancienne version. Cette démarche fait parti de l’initiative microsoftienne visant à aider la sécurisation de tous les ordinateurs et non plus seulement ceux des professionnels.
Le commentaire de Steve Lipner, directeur du département sécurité de chez Microsoft :
"We are pleased to see an increased interest in computer security among our customers. At Microsoft, we recognize that security is job one, and we must continually improve our products to better defend against ever-changing security threats. It's important that home users -- as well as our enterprise customers -- have timely information and security updates to help keep their systems as secure as possible. (…) We encourage interested consumer users to take advantage of this new service and continue to use tools such as Windows® Update and Automatic Update."
Ce système remplacera donc the Microsoft Security Notification Service lancé en 1998 qui comptait près de 300 000 inscrits.
