Other naming bloopers include Bob, HailStorm, Windows Genuine Advantage, PlaysForSure, and 2007 Microsoft Office System.
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.
Volkema might succeed, with 35-year-old Ayse Birsel and her Resolve office system, which redefines open-plan office space at 120-degree angles with a combination of poles, arms and screens.
Her back-office system, the latest version from Dayton, Ohio-based Reynolds and Reynolds, automatically sends out discount coupons by e-mail or regular mail, alerting customers to 10, 000-mile checkups or extended-warranty offers.
For example, it is unlikely that a start-up will succeed in taking on Wal-Mart (WMT) directly in the retailing business with an everyday low price strategy nor will a start-up office operating system maker make much headway against Microsoft (MSFT).
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The Home Office said the system would be implemented within weeks, following Parliamentary scrutiny.
Nokia has been turning around slowly after its gutsy decision to abandon its in-house smartphone platform and support Microsoft Office Phone operating system.
However awkward it may have been for the man whose neighbor was running for office, this system made vote counting transparent and did not require voters to read or write.
Freshly launched editions of Microsoft's mainstays--the Windows operating system and Office desktop productivity suite--helped the Redmond, Wash.
Microsoft derives about 75% of its stock value from Windows operating system and Office suite of products, according to our estimates.
She's known for niceties like sending thank you notes, and her office has a tracking system to be sure they are sent out.
In 2000, the commissioner's office recommended a slotting system for the owners to follow, which set limits on the bonus of a top-five pick.
More than anything, he depends on the patent office's technological system.
Founded in 1975, it rose swiftly to dominate the world of personal computing with its Windows operating system and Office suite of word-processing and other productivity tools.
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Having good middleware layers so you do not tightly couple your mobile app to a particular OS or to a particular back-office application and financial system, this is very critical.
She's had some success: In Albany, community leaders, including from the mayor's office and the school system, have been meeting for months to explore what resources are available to make the idea work.
Just as Microsoft can give away its browser because it makes money from the Windows operating system and Office, so Sun can afford to make StarPortal free because it makes so much from selling the powerful servers that host web pages and other data.
Microsoft is a company that has attracted more than its fair share of criticism over the years for its aggressive competitive practices, the dubious quality of its Windows operating system and Office applications, as well as its seeming inability to produce sizable growth in recent years.
Microsoft's commitment to PC technology has kept it investing in operating system and office automation software for the last decade while losing more than two-thirds of its market share in smartphone operating systems and delaying its entry into the fast-growing tablet business--places where Apple has had astoundingly profitable revenue growth.
That U.S. Code citation, for example, comes from the office's Federal Digital System website.
The official said there was no impact or attempted breach of a classified system within the office.
Microsoft as we know has a lock on the PC operating system, on Office and does well in games.
Today sees the publication of the third 5 year strategy - this time for the Criminal Justice System and Home Office.
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That's the motivation behind Gutsche's paperless office, his second such system after going through the shift with his previous employer, Capital One.
Because the Adwords buying process works with little human supervision, says Exploit Prevention's Chief Technology Office Roger Thompson, the system is ripe for abuse.
When she heard the crackling over the PA, school library clerk Mary Ann Jacob called the office to tell them the system was still on.
Office furniture maker Steelcase asked RWD to design a system that could help even computer-illiterate salesmen configure and price a suite of office furniture using a laptop.
But since taking office, she has found the system stacked against her once again.
Congress stepped in and said that content owners need to get paid and set up a royalty system through the copyright office.
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Yet because AIR lets SlideRocket tap into the storage of a PC, it has a drag-and-drop file system similar to Windows Office.
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