With McAfee deal, Intel to bake in security

Yep Petey7, that's the only reason I had McAfee on they sys, it came with the PC.

Had I known what kind of troubles I would have down the road, I would have removed it immediately.

As for when MS bundles MSE with Win 8, I think they'll do it, but they will say "You don't have to use it unless you want to." Or they'll give directions to uninstall it if you want to. That's probably how they'll get around that.

It's like when people were screaming about IE 5 being set into Windows by default (I think it was IE5, or IE4...it's been a while) and MS had to give them instructions on how to uninstall it if they wanted because the other browsers cried foul.

They managed to get away with including defender, so we will see.

Hello Windows 8 E/N/A/WA/C/H

If the plans are to use this in thier own further devolopment and technologies..

I do not understand why buying out a company that is failing is of any help. I mean their products lately weren't even performing very well were they?

Why not buy out, or at the very least make a contract with a company thats doing well.

Like Norton, ESET, Kaspersky

Wishmaster said:

If the plans are to use this in thier own further devolopment and technologies..

I do not understand why buying out a company that is failing is of any help. I mean their products lately weren't even performing very well were they?

Why not buy out, or at the very least make a contract with a company thats doing well.

Like Norton, ESET, Kaspersky

Not everyone is selling. Buying the weaker company means saving money.

Besides, they pick up a lot of R&D that they never had. Why start from scratch when you don't have to?

I'm guessing they are still getting a deal, despite paying more than necessary. Besides, MS actually bought out out GIANT Company Software, which made GIANT antispyware, and GeCAD, which made Reliability Antivirus (neither of which I heard of before they were bought out) before beginning to design there own antimalware programs. I bet Intel is going for the same thing. McAfee is already made. It needs some major improvements, but I'm guessing Intel has the cash needed to get it done. Starting from scratch would take more time and money.

madtownidiot said:

I can't see how purchasing McAfee, which IMO has never made a good product for home users, could possibly help microsoft improve it's own security software, unless they're looking for examples of what not to do

I agree with that.