Alan Packer Quotations

We're trying to?move away from this idea of control, blocking and locking down the Internet. We're moving toward enabling the Internet by giving users tools to help improve safety.

We've built a new product called Family Safety Settings. We're calling it Family Safety, rather than Parental Control because people don't like that term ? parents don't like the idea of controlling, blocking or spying on their children.

With version 1, we've focused on consumers and families but there is definitely a need for classroom situations so we're looking into that for future versions -- specifically, the ability to apply a policy that administrator or teacher can set up across multiple PCs.

This functionality is backed up by Windows Live features like centralized storage and it can be managed from anywhere. We've got Web-based activity reports so that you can keep an eye on what your family is doing online from any location.

These products are designed to be complimentary. We developed them together.