With luck, Jobs showed his continued interest in the game earlier in the day, when he indicated that Apple's iTunes was now on over 300 million computers worldwide, mostly Windows machines.
Many corporate customers, who buy mostly Windows-based PCs are eyeing the new Windows phones as possible adjuncts to their overall strategy, particularly since Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 share many characteristics and may be easier to manage as a set.
What eventually became Pella Corp. sells mostly residential windows and doors in North America, Japan and China.
It's a landfill, and even with the car windows mostly shut, it reeks.
And on the downside, mostly focused around price and Windows RT.
The family's odyssey began on Aug. 8, 2011, when police lost control of London, as thousands of mostly young rioters smashed shop windows, looted items and set objects ablaze across the city.
It had previously only dabbled in the space with a handful of Windows Mobile devices aimed mostly at business customers.
Microsoft's ultimate Windows Phone 8 event mostly expanded on a familiar story, but it did leave us a surprise twist near the end.
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For the moment the mystery building up around Windows Phone 8 is mostly confined to the technology columns watching the lack of public developments.
But the problem, from Gates point of view, was that VisiCorp had a working demo (or so it seemed, the demo turned out to be mostly carefully crafted showmanship) and Windows was barely in the planning stages.
Microsoft complained the suit was mostly about it bundling Microsoft Explorer with Windows, a move that killed Netscape but which was the equivalent of shipping cars with radios installed, which killed the independent car-radio merchants.
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Though ALL department machines contain only Linux (mostly Ubuntu), majority of people use Windows in their laptops for day to day working.
The building was mostly American Georgian Revival, with its characteristic, symmetrical rows of windows on each floor.
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Some observers are calling Windows 8 the new Vista -- a hard and mostly undeserved slap to the face.
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While it can be used on its own, Canonical mostly sees it being used in a dual-boot environment with Windows (giving Canonical a bigger foothold in the process).
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Meanwhile, Microsoft is supposedly unconcerned about the early slow sales of Windows 8 because, well, the touchscreen PCs are mostly unavailable for the holiday season and Surface is only available through limited retail outlets.
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Sure, Microsoft will sell a lot of Windows licenses to those still buying PCs, but the future is mostly elsewhere.
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The Windows 8 handsets have seen a deluge of news this month, mostly involving the new 920 and 820 models.
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While the hardware has remained mostly unchanged, the company's gone to town on the camera app, moving beyond the Windows Phone Lens system to craft a new Smart Cam interface.
But there were those of us (unathletic types mostly, pale of skin and soft of belly) who'd gaze out through the classroom windows just before noon, scanning the horizon for thunderclouds.
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