and desires led to European Exploration. The sailing advances in technology include the caravel‚ this design of triangular sails helped sailors to sail effectively against the wind. More advancements include the astrolabe‚ which helped sailors to better determine their location at sea‚ the magnetic compass‚ which allowed sailors to more accurately track direction‚ and cartography‚ the science of making maps. Additionally‚ the desire for money‚ more land‚ and spreading Christianity led to European
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Microsoft 1 MicArosoft Outsourcing Xbox Production Geovanna Garcia BUS25010016-200905 – International Business Environment Professor Adkins September 2009 Microsoft 2 Microsoft – Outsourcing Xbox Production When Microsoft decided to enter the video game market with its Xbox gaming console executives had to make a strategic decision whether to manufacture the Xbox or outsource the manufacturing. After some studies‚ it was decided that they did not have manufacturing and
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During the last few recessions experienced in the USA a new phenomenon has puzzled many economists titled ‘Jobless growth’. The term jobless growth refers to a situation when a country is emerging from a recession‚ where its gross domestic product increases but the unemployment rate stays the same or lags behind for several quarters without increasing following GDP growth. Jobless growth in the USA has alarmed many‚ the reason being that over the past few major recessions of 1991‚ 2001 and 2008‚ all
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1. Introduction. Microsoft launched Vista‚ new operating system at that time‚ on 30 January 2007‚ to consumers in 70 countries. Vista came up with putting manuscripts full access online‚ better protection on internet and powerful speeded up graphics‚ as mentioned in Financial Times (2007). This essay is going to state about the market structure especially in Monopoly‚ Duopoly and Perfect competition with relations to economic efficiency‚ profit margins‚ and about substitutes and complements products
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against Microsoft? Explain. What are the disadvantages to customers when one company dominates an industry? Why should competition be encouraged? The settlement focused on Microsoft’s selling practices with computer manufacturers. Until now‚ Microsoft would sell MS-DOS and Microsoft’s other operating systems to original equipment manufacturers (OEM’s) at a 60% discount if that OEM agreed to pay a royalty to Microsoft for every single computer that they sold regardless if it had a Microsoft operating
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Q.1 Explain the role of ‘Microsoft Exchange’ Server technology in order to integrate and manage enterprise level data. Ans : Microsoft Exchange Server is a mail server‚ calendaring software and contact manager developed by Microsoft. It is a server program that runs on Windows Server and is part of the Microsoft Servers line of products. Windows Messaging‚ initially also called Microsoft Exchange‚ is an e-mail client that was included with Windows 95 (beginning with OSR2)‚ 98 and Windows NT 4
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Geography internal 2.5B How does location affect vegetation growth? I will be looking at several factors that affect growth‚ such as density‚ height of plants‚ how different altitudes affects plant growth‚ temperature variations and wind speeds. All these are contribution factors that I assume will influence vegetation growth in the TVC. I discovered that all of the 6 sites that we visited had unique characteristics that made each one different. Some of the landscapes were baron and had very
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Economic growth From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (April 2011) GDP real growth rates‚ 1990–1998 and 1990–2006‚ in selected countries. Rate of change of Gross domestic product‚ world and OECD‚ since 1961 Economic growth caused the production-possibility frontier to shift outward. Economic growth is the
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Microsoft in China and India‚ 1993-2007 Risks faced by Microsoft in China and impact to performance Risks Intellectual Property Localization Details Largest piracy rates in the world – 98% *Huge character sets required new versions of software *Chinese used mobiles more than the PC (can the mobile be a computing device)? *High profile revelation by Juliet Wu‚ former GM on commitment * Suspicion on security *Open source market * Entrepreneurship bug for Chinese software engineers *Legislation
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Global LED Display Market 2014-2018 A Light-emitting Diode (LED) is a semiconductor light source and its applications range from lighting in houses‚ commercial spaces‚ and offices‚ to backlighting in TVs‚ smartphones‚ and tablets‚ to headlights in vehicles. LEDs became popular because of their low cost and higher energy efficiency; they offer savings of around up to 40 percent of energy as compared to other options. Covered in this Report This report covers the present scenario and the growth
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