Competitor Intel also topped analyst estimates earlier in the week and offered a rosy forecast for the holidays.

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That tactic didn't pull many new users away from leading competitor Windows Media Player, says Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey.

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In a Sept. 23 note to investors, Merrill Lynch analyst David W. Munno, who covers antibiotic maker Cubist , a Vicuron competitor, wrote that he suspected Pfizer had received an approvable letter.

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Current Analysis senior analyst Joel Conover says Cisco had been lagging in the CRM space, where competitor Avaya (nyse: AV - news - people ) already released software to connect its IP telephone systems to Microsoft's CRM.

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