During the quarter, we also strengthened our offering portfolio through the acquisition of a premiere softwaredevelopment company that specializes in big data, analytics and advanced applications.
Agile softwaredevelopment comprises a set of management practices and values based on customer focus achieved through iterative and incremental development, and where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams and their customers.
Rather, in archetypal Microsoft fashion, it is first consolidating its grip on game developmentthrough its control of the underlying software, a series of low-level programs that go under the rubric of DirectX.