For example, Microsoft, Oracle and Intel will gain weight and go up to 19% combined.
For example, Microsoft (MSFT) and Analog Devices (ADI) make the cut for large caps this month.
For example, Microsoft used to sell its products through partners if the organization had fewer than 5, 000 seats.
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For example, Microsoft and Apple digitally sign software updates with their private keys.
Just to cite one example, Microsoft maintains software development labs in India and China, facilities designed to help transfer technology and benefit the host country as well as the company.
In another strong example of Microsoft's continued " investment" in PlaysForSure, it's pulling out of MSN Music, the big M's very own store for selling the not-completely-dead-yet music format.
The Microsoft example is a project that came out of the test group.
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In perhaps the most aggressive example of tying, Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) was accused of trying to snuff out rival Netscape by giving a competing Web browser away for free.
With Microsoft, for example, Cisco built a big information-sharing system for a military customer.
For example, you might choose Microsoft Word for documents, JPEGs for photos and Microsoft Powerpoint for presentations.
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Microsoft, for example, is bringing in a very nice revenue stream from OEMs fearful of being sued over their use Android.
Microsoft, for example, has enriched Mr Gates and his top managers hugely, but it has also created thousands of millionaires among its employees.
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Microsoft, for example, saw its shares knocked down by its battle with antitrust regulators, yet still managed to be the world's second-biggest wealth creator.
Microsoft themselves for example: although quite how much selling smartphone software is going to move the dials on a company that size is unknown.
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Microsoft, for example, is taking a cautious approach to its latest social media experiment, So.cl, which actually is part social network, part search engine.
Microsoft, for example, has been developing software that takes advantage of the different times an acoustic wave arrives at each microphone in an array around the screen of a computer.
You can take money out of these tax-favored accounts to buy any computer, peripheral, or educational software but not games (Microsoft Word, for example, but not Halo).
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As an example, Derek Snyder, a Microsoft senior product manager, demonstrated an in-the-works Windows Phone application for British Airlines that pushes notifications such as flight arrival and departure times right to the app.
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Microsoft is another great example.
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Where HP's work bringing webOS to new platforms and architecture could pay off, though, is in licensing webOS. Effective licensing ultimately requires supporting a broad range of hardware configurations, a burden that Nokia, for example, has pledged to help Microsoft with as the phone maker brings Windows Phone 7 to less costly hardware.
They would be astonished to see how success (Microsoft being the most dramatic example) can actually arouse the ire of government because entrepreneurs don't have to get political permission to move ahead.
Before the new rules a mutual fund or hedge fund that wanted to dump 100, 000 shares of Microsoft quickly could, for example, bypass the New York Stock Exchange and sell them all at once on a different exchange if it saw an open order to buy 100, 000 shares--even if the offer price on the NYSE was a nickel higher.
Committee staff briefed the press this morning on the ways Microsoft and Hewlett Packard, for example, are using the tax code and offshore entities to shift billions in net income to low tax countries.
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For example, Apple stock is over 20% while Microsoft, Oracle and Intel combined only make up 9%.
Example engagements include Intel, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Fortune Brands, the Fortune Growth Summit, The Conference Board: Learning from Legends, and Excellence in Government.
In one example, many companies never bothered to upgrade to Microsoft's last version of its operating system, Windows Vista, in part because of technical issues with the software when it was first released.
But while Tegra will be powering devices running Microsoft software, Apple could offer the best example of where Nvidia and Intel see the future going.
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