27.02.2014, 14:53
Przeglądając Wildersy natknąłem się na wypowiedź dotyczącą ostatnich dokonań i planów, jakie ma Avira autorstwa użytkownika Witttri pewnie nie byłoby nic w tym specjalnego gdyby nie fakt, że przy jego nazwie jest dopisek "CEO Avira" ...czyli ni mniej ni więcej jak Travis Witteveen , który został mianowany na stanowisko CEO ( Chief Executive Officer- funkcjonalnie dyrektor generalny, prezes zarządu) w czerwcu 2013.
Poniżej jego cała wypowiedź, bo warto wiedzieć, jakie plany ma znany producent zabezpieczeń
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Cytat: Witttr
CEO Avira
Hi all,
reading the forum has provided me some good insight about our company and our technology (of course, some of it causing an emotional roller coaster of feelings...). I would like your feedback and suggestions to make us even better. Let me summarize what we have done, based on the posts found in this thread and in other feedback forums:
Over the last 6 months we have done the following:
- removed our splash screen advertisements from free (September 2013)
- added Avira Protection Cloud (APC) to our paid products real-time scanning (October 2013)
- rolling-out APC to our free user base (ongoing, will probably take a couple of months before 100% is reached)
- removed the Ask toolbar (global removal to be complete by the end of Q1)
- as of November we are back at the top in detection rates (AV Comparatives and AV Test).
- added a great AV product for Android, based on current test results (August 2013)
- added a free web portal to connect all of our users devices, with the exception of Mac (January 2014)
- changed our update structure (xvdf) in beta now (March/April release)
- offering a new browser safety plug-in, Avira Browser Safety (ABS) (January 2014- Chrome)
- improved repair (January 2014)
- continue to improve Avira Answers as a free source of help for our products and the security issues our users face (not yet a forum replacement)
- continue to offer direct support at no additional cost for anyone, who purchases a license of our products (phone, e-mail, chat, etc..)
What we have planned in the near future:
- removing user registration requirements for Online Essentials and the mobile apps (approx. Q2 2014)
- releasing ABS for firefox (March 2014)
- continue to focus on detection and repair functionality
- continue to work on the user interface, improving usability
- adding Mac support to our online essentials portal
- adding multi-user support to our online essentials portal
I would really like to get both your feedback as well as constructive improvement suggestions. I can’t promise that we will incorporate them all, but I will provide you with a response and reason behind our actions.
Thanks again for your contribution (and in advance for your continued feedback),
Travis
Cytat: The challenge we have, is of course balancing between making money to fund our development, while providing more and more value to our free products (sadly, the market is moving to free and license sales becomes more and more difficult). We will do our best to avoid bloatware and only focus on the "essentials" required to be safe in the internet (marketing pitch, I know; forgive me).
What we will ensure is that any monetization effort will be configurable and for the most part; opt-in and highly relevant for users (you have to choose to accept, but you will hopefully want to). We will continue to offer a search product (opt-in), where we annotate the results and we will be hosting the service in our own network soon, adding much more value to the experience. Any personal information (PI) we inadvertantly collect, we will not use it for direct targeting (kept away from our marketing team), with the exception of license renewal data and anonymized statistical analysis. We will keep some advertising in the products, but make sure it''s relevant and valuable to our users (the only opt-out/locked component of our free product).
With regards to speed; it is at the top of our agenda. As Stefan says the new vdf infrastructure as well as download speed performance (we are currently moving to a global CDN for both updates and downloads), are at the top of our list and are already a dramatic improvement to our performance. We are aware of some speed hurdles within Windows 8. We have planned for an additional improvement addressing the Windows 8 topics in our update 4.
Keep the feedback coming.
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