BitDefender Free has been discontinued
I just got an email from BitDefender (I personally use their antivirus) stating the following (at 10:01 PM tonight), verbatim: > Dear [redacted], > The decision to discontinue a product is never easy. > It’s especially hard with a product as popular as our Free Edition has been in recent years. > Since early 2020, we have had to weather immense changes in our industry; changes that upended many of our cherished plans for product development. > Sadly, Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition has been a casualty of those changes. > As of 1st of January 2022, Bitdefender Antivirus Free Edition will officially be discontinued and no longer available for use. > As a Free Edition user, how does this affect you, and how should you prepare? > We will continue to offer tech support for our Free Edition until 30st of June 2022. We hope this gives you time to choose and install an
Why it failed
I just got an email from BitDefender (I personally use their antivirus) stating the following (at 10:01 PM tonight), verbatim: > Dear [redacted], > The decision to discontinue a product is never easy. > It’s especially hard with a product as popular as our Free Edition h
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- tentacleuno
- Ended
- 2021
- Source
- hackernews