Dell believes that to convince consumers to move away from the floppy the industry will need a single storage device that offers similar features to a floppy, including the ability to boot the PC, greater capacity and greater usability.
But many Outlook users may not care about that, regarding any marketing email as spam and welcoming any mechanism that can give such mail the boot. Outlook 11 will, by default, no longer grab data such as images from outside servers when previewing...
Dell noted that if the hard drive fails on a no-floppy Dimension, consumers will be able to boot up using its CD drive. The floppy drive is heading toward extinction at Dell Computer. Later this month, the PC maker plans to drop the floppy as...
Like pixie boots and Bros, some things are better off left in the 1980s - viruses that spread via floppy discs and tried to wipe hard drives, for example. Unlike the average virus which spreads over email, IM or networks, Bacros is going back to...
Based on the average number of text messages, emails, digital images and MP3 files consumers are storing on mobile devices today, users are carrying on average a ten gigabytes of data on their person daily.
The first computer viruses infected the boot sector of floppy disks, which were the main way of sharing files between computers. Boot-sector viruses gave way to macro viruses in the mid-1990s. Unsurprisingly, they had an immediate and devastating...