We're not talking about the core multi-user functionality or the companion app here (more on that later), just the basic desktop environment.

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And Microsoft has made one simple and seemingly small change with the upcoming Internet Explorer 10 which could have very large implications for the basic business environment online.

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Many companies did exactly this and wrote their basic systems within this environment.

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"To the extent that the dollar is stronger, it makes the basic materials' fundamental environment that much tougher, " said Mr. Skaggs.

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Peter Huber elaborates the argument in his Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists (Basic Books, 1999).

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Some may want to dabble in private cloud or move some of their basic infrastructure apps like e-mail or collaboration to a public cloud environment using Office 365.

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Nothing in the evolving global security environment suggests that the U.S. military will be unshackled from the basic requirement to deter if possible, but fight and win if necessary, two geographically separated major theater conflicts in overlapping time frames.

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Prof Crome said it was possible to focus on technical aspects of nursing at the same time as basic care, adding it was crucial to have care values "reinforced in the the training environment and the working environment".

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Beyond providing more people with the opportunity of getting a good job, an investment in basic data science education can lead to more informed citizenry, making smarter decisions in a political environment characterized by increasing complexity and rising polarization.

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