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U3: Is it dead? Submitted by Darkbee on October 27, 2009 - 7:49am
Subject pretty much says it all. I was wondering what the general state of U3 is/was. It never really seemed to take off from what I could tell. The idea was a good one, the implementation was poor. Whenever I got a flash drive with it on, I uninstalled it immediately. I'm wondering if PA.c has had a large impact (in a positive way) on the seemingly inevitable demise of U3. ( categories: )
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The platform itself is
The platform itself is probably dead, but the virtual CD drive can be useful to inject a bootable ISO on it and easily install an OS on a netbook for example.
Yep, it's crazy dead. But a
Yep, it's crazy dead.
But a lot of contributors are still posting their u3 app releases...
Firefox for u3 is still in it's 2.0.0.* series, which is sad
Never trust an EXE, this means you...
Microsoft
The app was sold off to Microsoft 2 or 3 yrs ago and MS hasn't done much with it so far.
Ed
I am using U3 right now, and
I am using U3 right now, and ironically I saw this thread because I am looking for an alternative to it. I've used it for almost 4 years now, so I think it most likely is.
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