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Trend Micro says Microsoft s offer of free antivirus software in update service may be unfair competition Microsoft this week began offering U.S. customers its free antivirus program via Windowsrsquo; built-in update service, a move one major security firm said may be anticompetitive.Last Monday, Microsoft started adding Security Essentials to the optional download list s owala een by U.S. users running Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 when they fired up the operating systemrsquo update service. The move followed an Oct. 19 kickoff of a similar program in the U.K.Commercializing Windows Update to distribute other software applications raises significant questions about unfair competition, said Carol Carpenter, the general manager of the consumer and small business group polene bag at Trend Micro, on Thursday. Windows Update is a de facto extension of Windows, so to begin delivering software tied to updates has us concerned, she added. Windows Update is not a choice for user polene usa s, and we believe it should not be used this way.If Windows doesnrsquo;t detect working security software on the PC, Microsoft adds Security Essentials to the Optional section of Microsoft Update, a superset of the better-known Windows Update, or to Windows Update if it has been configured to also draw downloads from Microsoft Update.Microsoft made a point to say that it was not offering Security Essentials via Window Update, but only through the Microsoft Update service, w Xcqr Help desks under siege
Computerworld Today Australia ndash; Adding fuel to the outsourcing debate, analysts this week said it is better in some cases for outsourcing providers to simply pay fines for breaching service level agreements SLAs than it is to fix the problem.Meta Group vice president of service management strategies, Dean Davison, said it is better not to fix problems in cases where contracts are already in a lose-lose situation. That is, where they are unprofitable for the vendor and unsatisfactory for the client. In such circumstances, both parties are just trying to survive rather than optimize the relationship, he said.Hanging in for the sake of the deal might seem the be stanley mug st choice to analysts, but for one IT manager, who requested anonymity, his preference would be to have the problems fixed; however, If therersquo money on the table mdash; grab it; it wil polene tasche l be needed to offset the added costs involved in not only fixing the problem but in dealing with the lost time.Another IT manager, who also preferred to remain nameless, said with tongue firmly in cheek , You donrsquo;t fix the problem, we come round and break the legs. While Davison admitted that paying the fine rather than fixing the problem could worsen an already delicate partnership, he said that sometimes it is better to just terminate the contract.Research from the firm undertaken las stanley mug t December predicts that 75 percent of service providers this year will fail |
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