Intel Buys McAfee for $7,680,000,000

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[citation][nom]one-shot[/nom]I recommend you take an economics class before commenting on a company's position when they are a monopoly. Does you Power Company charge you $10/Kwh? Does the USPS charge you $5 for a stamp just because? If they sold CPUs for $10,000, no one would buy them. If no one buys them, they don't make money. So they lower prices until the supply and demand meet in a happy place called the Equilibrium.-No Offense.[/citation]

Wow you are dense at economics.
1.) Power is not provided by 1 company, but an army of retail providers who compete.
2.) Postage is a government regulated monopoly, where price increases need to be approved by a government body.

Monopolies always charge a lot more than healthy competition. I can't believe there are people as thick as you out there!
 
"Intel Buys McAfee for $7,680,000,000"

Then one year later they get a notice on the screen saying they have to pay $7,680,000,000 again because the version of McAfee they bought has just expired.
 
Bad move if you ask me they should have bought a graphics/chipset instead say nvidia.
Mcafee is such a worthless AV i spend more time cleaning viruses,spyware,worms and rootkits on machines that have mcafee more than any other av.
 
To those asking about Intels acquisition of Grisoft(AVG), it occurred in 2005 so they have had this sort of crap tech for a while. Do a google search on it and you'll find tons of articles. My personal AV choice (when I must use one) is Vipre by Sunbelt software. I recommend that anyone check it out. I especially love its teeny tiny memory footprint, does not get in the way of using your computer as you would without AV.
 
lol i can see it now...

McAfee SiteAdvisor
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Thunderbyte anti virus had an add in ISA card for virus protection ages ago ...

I always liked TBAV for DOS and while the ISA card was way to expensive for me i really would have liked one back in the day. To bad they F***ed up on there windows software and went belly up.
 
[citation][nom]kydan[/nom]They need to buy AMD imo[/citation]
Why? So they no longer have any competition? So that prices rarely, if ever get cut? So moving forward with technology no longer becomes a priority for Intel due to lack of competition?
 
Wow, I think the buying price is crazy! I am not saying that McAfee is not good. However, there are definitely other better security software companies out there.
 
"In the past, energy-efficient performance and connectivity have defined computing requirements. Looking forward, security will join those as a third pillar of what people demand from all computing experiences. "

At least hes on right about that security is pretty much the next major thing that needs to be worked on... I mean our computers are powerful(ya) Cheap (uh huh) Somewhat energy efficient...(work is being done there) Connective (you bet cha) Secure (Maybe if you know what your doing but not everyone does). So Kudo's for intel for keeping security in mind. wether or not it does any good is yet to be determind, and im not the biggest intel fan but they are needed.
 
I hope Intel can improve on McAfee's software first and foremost. Consumer level-McAfee is one step above AVG Free, and thats still leaps and bounds behind Kaspersky AV, Norton Internet Security 2010+ or G-DATA Antivirus.

The only reason McAfee sells so many corporate licenses is because of the deals they have with PC vendors to include it with machines, and they give the vendors very good marketing cash for that. My school runs McAfee, and as anyone in its Computer Sciences department will say, school security is a joke.
 
[citation][nom]one-shot[/nom]I recommend you take an economics class before commenting on a company's position when they are a monopoly. Does you Power Company charge you $10/Kwh? Does the USPS charge you $5 for a stamp just because? If they sold CPUs for $10,000, no one would buy them. If no one buys them, they don't make money. So they lower prices until the supply and demand meet in a happy place called the Equilibrium.-No Offense.[/citation]
First of all, you're a moron.

Second, USPS is government owned. While they are no where near profitable (huge losses), they go everywhere (places UPS and other private companies won't because it isn't worth the cost), charges low shipping rates, and they can do all that because they are government owned.

Companies only care about profit and will abuse that power (huge prices and inferior products) if there is no competition (and regulations for that matter).
 
oh my god....it doesnt matter if you think mcafee sucks. they have all the options in the world now. call avg mcafee...merge them...anything. the biggest point is that 2 billion a year in revenue is great. its a smart business decision. companies buy companies all the time in hopes of becoming profitable in a much longer time frame. frankly its the best deal i've heard in a while.
 
[citation][nom]zerghumper[/nom]@ecnovaecI'm in the same position, and I know exactly what you mean. The last PC I worked on that had McAfee had three trojans and a worm that Malwarebytes found within 20 min. The sad truth is most people blindly trust Norton and McAfee, where's alternative free products can provide much better service.Maybe Intel has so much money they decided to do the right thing, and put the company down. Maybe then the government could learn from Intel, terrible companies DESERVE to fail, there's a reason they don't make money lol.[/citation]


I totally agree w/U in regards to existing better freeware than some big shots. I've seen OSs's crashing and being pretty much hand tied, having McAfee protection, which has been disabled actually...

Now, I wouldn't think Intel really means to put a company down because its lack of... name it. I would think they actually want to get a place in the market they haven't been before: Security Software.

Perhaps they come up with a sort of Intel-CPU-hardware feature combined with a McAfee-Software enhancement.

Anyways, business are business. At some level, this is a smart marketing move, you a make CPU's. which will be "bundled" w/your own custom AVS.
 
[citation][nom]braneman[/nom]wasted money... why would they want a malware company in the first place?[/citation]

Because of revenue and incomes at mid/long term. Again, think about it: Intel, known because of his high-end CPU's with customers, and a huge market all over, now buying an AVS company, with a certain reputation in the market... that means more customers for a single company. The thing here is not about McAfee's reputation, but, what Intel's reputation can do over its new acquisition.
 
[citation][nom]fihart[/nom]"Intel Buys McAfee for $7,680,000,000"Then one year later they get a notice on the screen saying they have to pay $7,680,000,000 again because the version of McAfee they bought has just expired.[/citation]

LOL, quite sharpy.
 
This is an absolute rubbish that intel is buying mcafee, what a waste of money , Paul Otellini has made the worst business decision in his corporate life, mcafee , vet , norton don't pickup virues, avg is far better and free , this will be Intel's downfall and may even become cash poor , The the future is faster tiny processors and small size computers that will be profitable, not junk piece of software that every one will pirate.

Shame intel , shame. shame paul otellini for getting the wrong advise on the acquistion.

The future will be cloud computing and users wont need to pay for software including operating system, watch out Microsoft?,
AMD will grow into a power house hardware company.
 
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