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25 July, 2009

Microsoft to unbundle IE from Windows: EU

By Sam Pascua

The European Commission says Microsoft has agreed to open up Windows to different web browsers in order to fend off European Union litigation.

“Microsoft has proposed a consumer ballot screen as a solution to the pending antitrust case about the tying of Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser with Windows,” the commission said in a statement.

It said computer users would be able to “easily install competing web browsers, set one of those browsers as a default, and disable Internet Explorer” from the ballot screen.

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04 July, 2009

The Hidden Cost of Using Microsoft Software

By Sam Pascua
Glyn Moody writes “Detractors of free software like to point out it’s not really ‘free,’ and claim that its Total Cost of Ownership is often comparable with closed-source solutions if you take everything into account.

And yet, despite their enthusiasm for including all the costs, they never include a very real extra that users of Microsoft’s products frequently have to pay: the cost of cleaning up malware infections. For example, the UK city of Manchester has just paid out nearly $2.5 million to clean up the Conficker worm, most of which was ‘a £1.2m [$2million] bill in the IT department, including £600,000 [$1 million] getting “consultancy support” to fix the problems, which including drafting in experts from Microsoft.’ To make the comparisons fair, isn’t it about time these often massive costs were included in TCO calculations?”
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11 June, 2009 2

Bing Bing: Microsoft's search engine unexpectedly live, but not Live

By Sam Pascua
Microsoft has made its new search engine available ahead of schedule, and is redirecting searches from Live Search to the new site
Bing screen shot

Got Bing if you want it! (with apologies to the Rolling Stones)

If you fancied using Microsoft‘s new search engine, it’s unexpectedly live at http://www.bing.com/ . (According to Microsoft, it was being opened at the SMX search marketing conference in Seattle on Wednesday.)

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16 February, 2009

Di now offers full range of hardware and software solutions.

By Sam Pascua

Design Industries has now secured a partnership and is now working with the largest hardware and software  suppliers and distributors . Working with companies such as DELL, MICROSOFT, HP, IBM, CISCO, JUNIPER, WATCHGAURD,  Design Industries is now able to offer our clients superior purchasing power through our relationships with our partners and suppliers. Working with our consulting team, Design Industries can supply and architect total redeployments of software, hardware and services from 1 desktop to 1000.

Our strength is that we remain agnostic towards the product we supply and look to best of breed solution for our clients as no 2 environments are the same and need to be treated as individuals.
If you have a project coming up or are looking for a due diligence to be provided on a current solution, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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