9 Quotes by Tom Powledge

We're more than happy to compete with Microsoft. Symantec will innovate on top of Vista. Security will be a dynamic issue that will be with us for quite some time.

While we're not announcing the specific number of licenses that will be included with it, Genesis will be a service that covers the needs of the entire household.

We're re-architecting a lot of components to make them more modular for delivery, smaller, faster, easier.

Consumers want someone on the other end to help them.

Symantec is uniquely positioned to offer consumers a complete personal security service through a combination of client-side technologies, online infrastructure, and key partnerships. The consumer simply pays a subscription fee to access the service; the price of the service will be available at the time of product delivery. An ongoing subscription fee will cover all updates and a designated amount of online storage for backup.

It's a new product that we've got coming out in the fall of 2006, and it's essentially destined to be an all-in-one security solution for consumers delivered as a service. We're taking components of the technologies from our other products and wrapping them up under a much more integrated interface.

It's a much more managed experience. The product is able to send data about its status.

Genesis will be as silent, as automatic for the users as we can make it. It's a natural evolution in security.

Genesis is not a suite or a bundle of tools, but a single integrated software application delivered to consumers as a service.