Recent content by jplarson

GeekApprovedThey paid 8 billion for Mcafee, so that should be 4 billion, not 13 billion. 13 - 8 = 4? BSMonitorNo, he is not... Agreed.

zman977In my opinion, Western Digital should of acquired a company that makes SSD memory so they could better compete in the SDD market... Just my 2 cents though. tpi2007This makes some sense, but... has WD also bought some SSD maker too ? They should be... For those wondering about Western...

I went from Win95, Win98, Win98 SE (my first pc, Compaq Presario 7470), WinXP Home, WinXP Pro SP1-3, WinXP Pro 64-bit SP2, Win Vista Ultimate 64-bit SP2, Win 7 Pro 64-bit RTM-SP1. Never got into DOS so much and I had friends with Win 3.11 but the first computers I played around with had the...

falchardI think the reason they are in business is very simple. Their competition is Realtek and Intel. Niether of which take networking seriously. Intel is huge in the business sector with networking. They offer dual and quad NICs for servers and have advanced drivers that allow teaming and...

They previously purchased McAfee and a maker of broadband modems. Makes me wonder what the cohesive strategy is aside from penetrating markets they had little to no presence in and selling their Atom chips to them.

Putting it into some context, while Windows 95 is 15 years old, Windows XP will be turning 9 in October.

Sounds a lot like Ikariam.com, but much much better.

It's a real shame that Intel is able to hold onto the x86 licensing... that effectively creates a monopoly. Granted they own the intellectual property of it, but it costs the market competition.

Bring back Carly!

When SP3 was first released, systems that were old back then had troubles updating to it. I've also seen systems on the network here slow down with SP3 installed, even on a freshly imaged machine. But moving to Windows 7 on the home front is a must and in a business environment it's...

128KB of memory is all you'll ever need in a mouse :)

Must be nice to be able to drop $380 on accessories. Having said that, more power to the folks who can get them. That mouse looks particularly interesting!