Tom Powledge Quotations

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

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.

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.

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.

Consumers want someone on the other end to help them.

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.