Introduction: It seems that the 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
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Harvard Business School 9-392-019 Rev. July 8. 1993 Bill Gates and the Management of Microsoft Despite the fact that we’ve been successful financially‚ there’s an ongoing need to anticipate where this industry is going‚ and to be at the forefront of changing the products. And this is every bit as challenging as it’s ever been--and perhaps more so. Bill Gates‚ Microsoft Chairman and CEO‚ 1991 On June 30‚ 1991‚ Microsoft Corporation closed the books on another year of dazzling growth. Revenues for the
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Microsoft: On anti-trust and monopolies (or How A Linux User Can Court Ostracism) Introduction In 1890‚ the US Congress passed the Sherman Act. Further‚ the Clayton Act was enacted in 1912. This was followed by the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936. These antitrust laws prohibit agreements in restraint of trade‚ monopolization and attempted monopolization‚ anticompetitive mergers and tie-in schemes‚ and‚ in some circumstances‚ price discrimination in the sale of commodities. Thus‚ the goals of
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Complete the following tasks by using the Microsoft® Excel®document provided in Course Materials: Format appropriate cells for currency. Merge title cells. Construct a bar graph using the existing data and provide labels and a legend. Insert a border around data. Freeze the first column of the data set. Sort the daily spending amounts in ascending order. Using the Tools menu‚ set the Excel spreadsheet to be protected. Calculate the sum of the entire data set. Calculate
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EDLP‚ and uses economy of scales from stocking its hypermarkets to keep prices low. 49% of Rimi Baltic’s turnover in 2008 was in Latvia‚ and for the purpose of this analysis‚ determining whether Rimi Baltic to should expand as a discount grocer into the UK‚ the country of Latvia will be used as a main point of reference. PEST Analysis Political: In recent history the two most significant dates in Latvia’s political evolvement have been 1991 and 2004. Both have impacted greatly on forming Latvia’s
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MICROSOFT ZUNE As Microsoft ventures into new markets‚ the Zune will definitely have an uphill battle in order to establish a significant market position. The portable media player industry is one which is dominated by iPod ’s monopoly‚ and saturated with second rate competitors; such as th ironically names iRiver‚ and Toshiba ’s Gigabeat. All have been struggling to attain any market share under Apple ’s prevailing shadow. Microsoft ’s major problem in this market is the dominance of the apple
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MICROSOFT WINDOWS I. Introduction Microsoft Windows is a series of graphical interface operating systems developed‚ marketed‚ and sold by Microsoft. Windows was introduced in 1985 as a graphical operating environment for MS-DOS regarding to the growing number of users interest in graphical user interfaces (GUI). As a result‚ the world’s personal computer market is gradually dominated by Microsoft Windows with over 90% market share‚ surpassing Mac OS‚ which had been introduced in 1984. In September
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Benefits to Upgrading to Microsoft 2010 Microsoft Word 2010 offers the best of all worlds: enhanced features to create professional-quality documents‚ easier ways to work together with people‚ and almost-anywhere access to your files. Designed to give you the finest document-formatting tools‚ Word 2010 also helps you easily organize and write your documents more efficiently‚ and stay within reach so you can capture your best ideas whenever and wherever they occur. Top Ten Reasons to Try Word
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Recently‚ Sony and Microsoft both released their newest gaming console‚ the Play Station 4 and the Xbox one. Before the release‚ there were several spec releases and features slowly being revealed throughout many conferences. Both companies used this opportunity to understand the competing model‚ and they decided whether to make changes to their product accordingly. Price had been a critical issue with the last generation consoles‚ the PS3 and Xbox 360. The PS3 debuted with a price that limited initial
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WIN8 TABLET SWEDISH MARKET STUDIES Unicorns Pamela Cominetti 61127 Sherry Wu 61138 Mario Harkmaa 61141 Mikael Fors 61123 Zhifan Yu 61150 Table of Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................................................... 2 Part I – Current Market Situation and Product Unique Selling Points ............................................ 2 Purchasing Drivers..............................................
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