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Archive for March 7th, 2010

Airbus loses battle with Boeing

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

AirbusThe European aerospace concern Airbus has not received in February 2010 orders for its aircraft, it is clear from the site of the company. Since the beginning of the year Airbus received 11 orders that were completed in January. During the second month of the year GW has signed only a memorandum of intent with Hong Kong Airlines, which plans to commission additional € 6 liner A330-200 already paid to 17 aircraft. In contrast, the main competitor of Airbus, the American Boeing, on March 2, already has contracts with 57 models 787 and 737. Official representative of Airbus, quoted by Agence France-Press, notes that nothing unusual had happened, and hastened to clarify that the data for last year, the concert was significantly ahead of its main competitor contracts. On December 1, ahead of Airbus Boeing in 194:93 ratio, but for the whole year the difference is even greater 310:263 in favor of European air-concern.
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100 million European consumers choose the Windows browser

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

MicrosoftThe European Union announced that nearly 100 million users of Microsoft Windows by mid-May will be asked to choose between the products of the American giant and its competitors under the terms of the agreement reached with the company forward AP, quoted by BTA. In March, Microsoft began sending to computers, working with operating system updates, thanks to the incorporation of computer users to be displayed screen, urging them to choose one or more than 12 browser to download and install the preferred program. The EU halted last case pending against Microsoft for violation of antitrust laws after the company proposed alternative browsers to Internet Explorer, which spreads along with operating system Windows.
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