And then Microsoft entered the market with Windows and its original Office product suite.
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Microsoft are already feeling the pressure from Google as Google Docs reduced the demand for the Office product suite, and that pressure is going to continue.
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Susan Grabau, Sun's StarOffice product line manager, said that these high-profile partnerships should extend the company's reach so it can better compete with bitter rival Microsoft, whose Office product is the most widely used desktop applications suite.
His next challenge: how to stoke growth in the Office product line--Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint--when his division already has a market share so large (400 million users) that research firms Gartner and IDC don't bother to track it.
In addition, mainline retailers Wal-Mart ( WMT), Target ( TGT) and Costco ( COST) have ramped up office-product offerings.
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While this secular bet will not be settled for some time, MSFT should get a cyclical boost late this year with the Windows 8 launch, expansion into the ARM- and Intel-based tablet markets, Office and Server product line refreshes, and a potential macro recovery and cyclical rebound in PCs.
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In September, Hythiam received a patent in Mexico for its cocaine addiction treatment product and was granted a patent from the Europe Patent Office for its alcohol dependence product.
Even the boot-strappers of the bunch aim to make significant investments in the coming year in everything from computers and office space to new product launches and crucial research and development.
Its headquarters are in Manhattan, it has an office in San Francisco that houses product engineers, has sales offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Chicago and operates another office in London.
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Regus, a big provider of managed office space, has a product called Businessworld that offers cardholders flexible access to its facilities.
Spinnaker is Bluetooth enabled, making it a versatile product for home and office.
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The xPrintServer - Office Edition is truly a timely product that addresses the growing adoption of mobile devices in businesses.
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"Ford is truly making the office mobile, " said Ford product development manager Bill Frykman while demonstrating the system Thursday to reporters in an F-150 parked in a large tent outside the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Microsoft Windows 8 has an unlikely enthusiast the SunGard product manager for a back office application.
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The bustle at the Office of Fair Trading suggests that some product markets could be made freer.
Nearly everyone in the world has taken a spin with Microsoft Office, Google Search or an Apple product.
Documents relating to the product were found in his office, Mr Whittam said.
Bloomberg Sports, vying to become a leader in the sports stats database business, will be on hand to showcase its latest baseball analytics product along with its Front Office 2011 fantasy game.
Not only will they be thankful to have a cool boss, you will get some free publicity every time they tag themselves at your office, bragging about the cool new product they are building for you.
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The Office for National Statistics said that gross domestic product (GDP) grew 1.0% in the three months from July to September, having contracted in the previous three quarters.
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What is impressive about the PAC, regarded as pretty much the flagship select committee, is the depth of research behind its work, the product of the prestigious National Audit Office.
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When it comes to product integration, Apple has been the darling of Hollywood. iOS devices last year appeared in 40 percent of the top box office movies according to Brandchannel, which tracks product appearances.
Office is the leading example of a mature product, one that has been "good enough" for many years, and thus not the sort of tech product for which users clamor for the latest-and-greatest upgrade (unlike, say, mobile phones).
Jason, the bike designer works tirelessly in his office to create a visual of the end product in full color and what appears to be 3 dimensions, each design looking like something out of a Hollywood special effects studio.
Microsoft recently launched Office 365, a web-based productivity software product, to mark an entry into the fast-growing cloud-computing space.
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The expanded product lines that have stretched Staples and Office Depot past pencils and paper clips and into computers and scanners might have something to do with it.
The company has integrated the product with Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, data from Outlook and Exchange, GPS and others.
He yanked 5, 000 Transmedia processing machines out of restaurants and combined Dining's classier front-end product with Transmedia's superior back-office system that credited savings on monthly charge-card accounts.
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