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Symantec begins round of layoffs

Anonymous Coward

Veritas Support 

Posted Tuesday 13th November 2007 11:14 GMT

Alert

Does this mean that former Veritas support is going from bad to abysmal?

JeffyPooh

Symantec-Sucks dot Blogspot 

Posted Tuesday 13th November 2007 13:43 GMT

I hope and pray that the morons that code their security applications are the first to be shown the door.

http://symantec-sucks.blogspot.com/

It was only a few years ago that I thought that their AntiVirus products were the very best. Every year they've slipped and slipped. Now their recent products (such as Norotn Internet Security 2007) are so poorly designed that you have to question the intellect of the people creating them.

If their headquarters is hit by an earthquake and slips into the sea please let us know as soon as possible.

Anonymous Coward

Norton 360 and Overpricing. 

Posted Tuesday 13th November 2007 19:23 GMT

Pirate

Personally I always used to update faithfully to the next version of Norton when released but when Symantec start putting products such as 360 on the market you begin to realise that Symantec has lost the plot. The average punter is far more technologically adempt than five years ago and you have to question just what market audience 360 appeals too. Pricing is also an issue, Norton products given the pricing of the opposition are simply too expensive.

Personally I have long been a fan of Partition Magic and I was aghast to learn that Symantec had brought out PowerQuest. The result has been that this admirable application has been sat on by the Symantec bethemoth for months without any real development. Really Symantec are doing a pretty good job digging their own grave.