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Intel Buys McAfee
Several readers have noted that
Intel has agreed to buy McAfee, the computer antivirus software maker, for about $7.7 billion in cash. There is also a press release available if you are into that sort of thing.
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McAfee is finally in the hands of someone qualified to figure out how to completely uninstall it.
You could buy a cross country railroad for that kind of money!
And deprive millions of corporate IT drones of their false sense of security?!?!? Are you insane, man???
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Intel plans to release a final update to all Mcafee users that will force uninstall the software from their machines, increasing the performance of Intel systems by 300%.
No, but it probably wastes at least that much each year in CPU watts.
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A list of better things you could do with $7b:
1. Fill a swimming pool with $100 bills and go nuts.
2. Buy several sky scrappers and blow em up, just for shits and giggles.
3. Buy Kaspersky.
4. Nothing. Absoluetly nothing. Ever again.
Any other suggestions?
Sorry, but AOL isn't for sale at the moment ;-)
As most slashdotters already know, nothing slows your computer down more effectively than Mcafee AV--even if you have the latest and fastest Intel CPU. Optimizing Mcaffe's code would probably add more real horsepower to Intel's processors and be less expensive than designing a new generation of chips.
That junk is worth $7bn?
No... Intel was up too late and made an impulse buy. It is trying to see if it can throw in McAfee with its sham-wow and shake-weight to trade for the neighbor's old lawnmower.
Assuming they were classy and used $100 bills (volume: 0.69 cubic inches), it would occupy about 4,427,500 cubic feet. Anyone care to take a swing at the weight? d:
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mcafee corporate is better then the home ver and has less bolt in it.
"I've got a quarter we can flip to see if this is a good or bad thing."
It's just a research venture. Intel is trying to figure out how McAfee can use up so much of a CPU that it should be put out of its misery.
Nah, Intel actually bought HP - McAfee just came bundled.
But it's only a trial version. After 60 days Intel will have to pay again to keep McAfee for a year.
This is actually a brilliant strategic move on Intel's part. 1) Buy McAfee
2) Give McAfee Antivirus away free with every AMD based system sold 3) Wait for masses of users to start complaining how slow and unstable the new (McAfee bundled) AMD based systems are. 4) PROFIT!
Right. No, your other right. No, the other other right.
I don't think either would be a wise choice if you're looking for a swift anything.
ftp.mcafee.com
licensed
321.
That right there made them more popular than they ever should have been. "everybody had that login"
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I figure they'll "optimize" it for Intel (read: "detect AMD chips and add delay loops when they find them") then use it as a benchmark in the sort of magazines that pointy haired bosses read.
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