Microsoft said on Monday, February 12 that its Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) subscription service for the enterprise is coming to Windows 8.1 and Windows 7.

Microsoft's Windows Defender ATP service, which provides pre- and post-breach detection and investigation, is finally generally available for Windows 7 and 8.1.

Windows 8 is a major OS overhaul, but some of the most important additions might be the ones you can't see. ... The updated Windows Defender resembles Microsoft Security Essentials.

Windows Defender ATP originally was built for Windows 10 clients, but Microsoft extended it for its so-called "down-level" Windows OSes. It's also built to support macOS, Linux and Windows Server ...

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), Microsoft's security software that combines end-point security and data collection with cloud analytics, has hitherto been unique to Windows 10.

But Microsoft’s Windows Defender caught only 97.5 percent of the so-called 0-day malware the testing firm threw at it in November, and only 90 percent in December.

Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac is available now in limited preview and follows the February expansion of the security service beyond Windows 10 to Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.. Microsoft Defender ...

Microsoft's Security Essentials and Defender products help stop various flavors of malware, and both have changed over the past several iterations of Windows. Both products work well with XP ...

AV-TEST, which tests and ranks antivirus solutions, has conducted its first Windows 11-based security test. However, Defender, despite all of Microsoft's touting, has managed to come in last place.