Of course, large enterprises have always dragged their feet on Windows OS upgrades, sure that they can always catch up with another version later.

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While regional peace conferences are always risky enterprises, it's difficult to imagine bringing a cease-fire to the Syrian situation without all parties that border that state or who have armed and financed any faction in the dispute being at the conference table.

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In the business world, leaders are not usually given lifetime appointments, although this is not always true in family-owned enterprises, because limits are put in place by boards and stockholders.

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Apparently tired of hearing pitches about the consumer takeover of the enterprise from too many startups and investors, Horowitz explains that enterprises usually have complicated processes for spending money, sometimes ineffective, but almost always arcane.

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