competition that has been brewing between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has never really died down from the late 1970s‚ even as both companies have had ups and downs in the stock market and in the consumer products market as well. Apple Inc. v. Microsoft Corp.‚ was a copyright infringement lawsuit in which Apple Computer sought to prevent Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard from using visual graphical user interface (GUI) elements that were similar to those in Apple’s Lisa and
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Bhargav Deliwala Shalin Parikh EPGCMM-006-06 EPGCMM-006-19 Microsoft Corporation: The design of Microsoft Support Network Question 1- What factors suggest that Microsoft’s PSS Division needs a more comprehensive and flexible approach for its service offerings? Answer 1- Service Cost :Service Cost is always a concern for any organization. A routine review it was found that service cost increased from thedivision’s Profit and Loss statement. It was projected that service expenditures would become
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Situation: Microsoft (MS) is losing money in PRC‚ partly because of the lack of intellectual property protection in that market and partly because its product (Windows 3.1) can not meet local customers" needs due to low level of localization. Since localization of Window 3.1 seems indispensable for MS to succeed in the promising PRC market‚ the question for MS is choosing the best localization solution from the available three choices. These choices are either leaving the market open for Software
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fraud surplus statement to cheat investors. In normal sense of accounting knowledge‚ a true and fair accounting information should be presented accurately and consistently without any errors‚ such as error of omission- a transaction that is not recorded‚ Error of omission -- a transaction that is not recorded‚ Error of
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Fundamental Attribution Error The fundamental attribution error is when a person overestimates the influence of another person’s personality over a remark or behavior rather than giving credit to the influence the situation may have on the person. A famous experiment demonstrating this “error” was conducted by David Napolitan and George Goethals. In this experiment‚ they instructed a woman to act either rude and critical‚ or warm and friendly to each person individually. Half of the group was
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to as semi-conservative replication. Cellular proofreading and error-checking mechanisms ensure near perfect fidelity for DNA replication. While most DNA replicates with fairly high fidelity‚ mistakes do happen‚ with polymerase enzymes sometimes inserting the wrong nucleotide or too many or too few nucleotides into a sequence. Fortunately‚ most of these mistakes are fixed through various DNA repair processes. But some replication errors make it past these mechanisms‚ thus becoming permanent mutations
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How does Microsoft conduct strategic planning and what role human resource management plays in that process? It is apparent that people are Microsoft’s greatest asset. Linking production areas and using an atmosphere that caters to the 30 year old average employee age‚ has made the company a fantastic place of employment. Human Resources is responsible for identifying‚ hiring‚ and retaining their gifted talent. Microsoft has also boasted as very generous compensation and benefits program that
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Common Law Assignment Answer 1: There is no enforceable contract between Joanna and Rita because under Contract Law it is stated that the first requirement for any valid contract to become existent is an agreement that contains the elements of “offer” and an “acceptance”. In the case provided‚ Joanna did put forth an offer for Rita who then laid a condition of accepting the offer‚ therefore a counter-offer; also Rita had not yet accepted the offer completely. She stated in her response‚ that
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Microsoft Zune and Apple iPod I. Introduction: Hook: Portable MP3 players have come a long way since their humble beginnings in the late 1990s. Subjects: Microsoft Zune and ipod Purpose: analyzing differences between two mobile T.S: The world’s first MP3 players‚ The Eiger Labs MPMan F10 and the Diamond Multimedia Rio PMP300 were shipped with 32 Mbytes of internal memory. MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) the standard for audio compression that makes any music file smaller with little or
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In United States vs. Microsoft Corporation it was a case of U.S. antitrust law in which the Microsoft Corporation supposedly violated the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act sections 1 and 2. Section 1 of the Sherman Act states that anti-competitive behavior such as contracts‚ combinations‚ and conspiracies in restraint of trade are all illegal. Section 2 states that establishments of monopolies and attempts at monopolies are illegal and the violation must be proved. The case was initiated in May of 1998
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