Bing Cashback Celebrates Black Friday With Up to 35 Percent Cash Back

I like how Paul was gleeful that Murdoch may de-list his news content from Google [according to his own biases that have no base in technology] but now it's emerged that Bing may pay Murdoch to de-list. That had to be a hard pill for Thurrott to comprehend swallowing.

"now it's emerged that Bing may pay Murdoch to de-list" Murdoch wants to be compensated for it, and Bing is willing to pay for an exclusivity license? So?

Bing is still such a stupid name. I don't give a crap what anyone says. It's laughable.

Microsoft's desperation in creating and promoting bing is just ridiculous. Remember, WinJihadists, when you were all up in arms about schools sponsoring field trips to Apple stores (which, parenthetically, is a GREAT idea, since Apple is the most successful retailer on the planet), and you accused Apple of indoctrinating our youth? How does THIS crap sit with you? http://www.businessinsider.com/microsofts-video-of-school-children-singi... Microsoft should be ashamed, and so should every administrator at that so-called "school" for w h o r i n g themselves out like that.

Thanks for the humor guys. Let me suggest some decaf and a very Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Later!

Here's a list of retailers and their CB %: http://discoverbing.com/giftguides/merchants.html Seems the 35% is only AT&T and T-Mobile. 10% at Walmart is decent.

Some of his users have over 10gig of email, so they are paying for at least the 25gig per user, plus calendar sharing, plus using their own domain. Plus with the Premium version of Google Apps you get full control over Postini for your domain. With the standard free version you are protected by Postini but you can change any of the settings, cant even view the dashboard for your domain. I roughed out that SBS2008 quote, it was not overly high, that is with labor included. The licenses alone are about $1500. A server with enough disk space, quad core and 12gigs of RAM was close to 2K from Dell. The solution did not include a on site Anti-mailware solution or a service like Postini. I wonder how you SBS guys are going to fair in the future against the cloud. Even MS is cutting into your action with their hosted Exchange/Sharepoint/LCS. There are lots of businesses that dont even need office space theses days because cloud offerings.

"The solution did not include a on site Anti-mailware solution or a service like Postini." Microsoft Forefront Client Security for desktop PC's: $12.72/pc/year (necessary regardless - add 1 for each server too) Microsoft Forefront for Exchange: $15/user/year "I roughed out that SBS2008 quote, it was not overly high, that is with labor included. The licenses alone are about $1500. A server with enough disk space, quad core and 12gigs of RAM was close to 2K from Dell." Too high. You could've used a Xeon Nehalem 3300 series quad-core, put in 8GB of RAM, and used an Intel RAID-5 card with enterprise SATA for WELL less than $1500. OEM software is where you save with SBS2008, and it comes with 5 CAL's already. You only have to buy an additional 5 CAL's. A 5-pack costs $385. If the company isn't using an LOB that requires SQL Server, you'd be hard pressed to convince me that anything more than 8GB is required for SBS for so few users. If they do use an LOB, you could've used your existing server for that. You only need SBS Premium for SQL Server, or if you want to virtualize under Windows Server 2008 Standard (you save money that way), or you already have licensing for other OS's, you can easily virtualize under Hyper-V server for free, save on SBS Premium, and run your legacy OS on the same box. All in all, an SBS 2008 box costing $2000 would last an estimated 6 years (maybe longer) with little hardware maintenance, and the company would have total control over the network infrastructure with a very inexpensive managed service contract, which is still far cheaper that what is offered by Google at $500/year. Besides that, you didn't take into account the training costs of switching people over to Google. Obviously they are used to using locally-running apps. Upgrading their server wouldn't change any of their routine (and the part about having to upgrade to Office 2007 is a laugh, since you can easily use even Windows XP and Office XP computers on SBS 2008). Obviously you didn't do your homework. "I figured there was a limit to the stupid Microsoft actions you'd defend, but I guess not. Unbelievable." And I figured you would've changed your double-standard....well, actually no I didn't.