And that's even without the benefit of the billions worth of costs Microsoft's online services business shares with money-spewing divisions built around Microsoft's operating system and business software.
"Apple has set its eyes on the dying infrastructure of the PC industry and Microsoft's Windows operating system business, " writes Dan Rowinski of ReadWriteWeb.
Microsoft is hardly abandoning its PC operating system business, but Windows has experienced a three-year trend of declining share in the mix of Microsoft's revenues.
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Google is now getting into the smart phone device-making business, already possessing the Android operating system.
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Alves acknowledged those strides but also said that RIM continues to be viewed as a particularly reliable operating system by his business clients.
Ensure business and employee computers have antivirus and operating system patches that are up to date.
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The new operating system continually assesses the business, the industry, and the organization, and reacts with greater agility, speed, and creativity than the existing one.
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Worse yet, the operating system that Apple's business was built around was out of date, and Apple's efforts to find a way forward were flailing.
Motorola has arguably benefited the most from its use of Google's Android smartphone operating system, turning its ailing business around thanks largely to the strength of Verizon Wireless's marketing muscle and the Droid franchise.
The Linux operating system that Red Hat's business is built around is free to share and distribute.
The challenge with Big Data is that it includes everything from hardware, through operating system, databases, analytics and business intelligence technologies, visualization software, post-graduate level mathematics and statistics, and innovative approaches to business and social problems.
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If you consider SharePoint as an operating system for the enterprise and allow business people to exploit the platform, embrace the ideals of the App Store, using hybrid deployments with integration to cloud solutions (Office365 I think is a killer app here) then it is possible to have the best of both worlds.
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But he proved himself on the consumer-business side by handling the release of Apple's latest Mac operating system software that went on sale this summer.
In the coming months, HP hopes to roll out consumer and business devices with wireless connection to the Internet, thanks to the operating system acquired with Palm.
Microsoft, if it gets its operating system right, could also capture a portion of the business tablet market and to do battle, once again, with RIM.
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The tarnishing of its once-platinum reputation began long before June, when a U.S. judge found Microsoft guilty of violating anti-trust laws by leveraging its operating system monopoly to take over other parts of the software business.
PalmSource also hopes to expand its business worldwide by using CMS technology to develop a new version of its Palm operating system that will run on Linux-based phone sets.
And as the economy becomes more fragmented and as old industry and old enterprises decline, a more fluid form of enterprise operating system will thrive only if we skill-up in the business of developing and capitalising on weak ties.
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For example, it is unlikely that a start-up will succeed in taking on Wal-Mart (WMT) directly in the retailing business with an everyday low price strategy nor will a start-up office operating system maker make much headway against Microsoft (MSFT).
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In developed markets like the U.S., TI says a range of phones would benefit from pico projectors. (The technology will run on any mobile operating system and is compatible with chipsets from companies other than TI.) Business-centric smartphones could include projectors for displaying PowerPoint projections or sales videos while high-end feature phones could incorporate them for social networking for teenagers.
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MS-DOS and later Windows as the dominant operating system for the personal computer thanks to its own pioneering efforts, the brilliance of its business strategy and the network effects that give a single standard inherent advantages over any rivals.
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