This week we got our first taste of that operating system's first major update, Windows 8.1, and it includes a number of notable upgrades and improvements.
For example, when IBM first asked Gates to write an operating system for its first PC, Gates possessed neither the experience nor the resources to put one together.
For example, when IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) first asked Gates to write an operating system for its first PC, Gates possessed neither the experience nor the resources to put one together.
Apple's Newton OS was one of the first operating systems to save everything created by default.
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In London, Standard Life surged 8.1% after reporting a 15% rise in operating profit for first half of 2012.
MyTurn's operating system was first developed over a decade ago by Geoworks and used in America Online's first dial-up software.
The company is set to post its first operating loss in seven years for the fiscal year ending March, according to a Nikkei report Tuesday.
The Microsoft-owned messaging platform has started testing what amounts to a video voicemail feature on OS X, Android and iOS, something that had already been hinted at in its updated TOS. Why those operating systems at first, without any word about Windows or Windows Phone, we're unsure.
Last year the Treasury's newly created Office of Financial Education launched a pilot programme, called First Accounts and operating in 26 states, that aims to bring 35, 000 people into the banking system for the first time.
In July, Michelin had said its operating margin in the first half was 10.2%.
No longer. iOS 6 is the first Apple operating system to implement native mapping software.
When Secure Wrap first began operating at the Miami airport in 1994, travelers didn't know what to make of it.
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Operating earnings for the first half of the year were down 19% as declining sales were observed across the industry.
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Another blue-chip name performing well is American Express (AXP), which had operating leverage for the first time this quarter.
Operating margin for the first nine months of 2010 was only 7.7%.
Patents played almost no role in protecting the first computer operating systems.
Richemont expects its sales and operating profit for the first six months of this year to be significantly higher than the comparative period.
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The Company last week forecasted an operating loss for the first quarter and said it had hired banks to look into strategic options.
Despite the strong operating start to the first quarter, Agnico-Eagle maintains its original guidance of 875, 000 to 950, 000 ounces of gold production in 2012.
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Its enemies fret about the fact that Windows 98 fully integrates Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser with the operating system for the first time.
It also includes joint ventures that develop catalytic distillation processes and hydroprocessing technologies, which were responsible for 12.1% of operating income in the first nine months of the year.
Some reached Iraq with the help of Nepalese agents operating illegally while others first went to the Indian city of Bombay (Mumbai ), from where they headed to Iraq.
Nokia and Nokia Siemens Networks expect Nokia Siemens Networks non-IFRS operating margin in the first quarter 2013 to be approximately positive 3 percent, plus or minus four percentage points.
At the centre of the group's financial crisis is the performance of the car division, which accounts for some 40% of sales, and which made a whopping euro429m operating loss in the first quarter alone.
This week it said operating profits for the first six months of the year would fall by 23%, mainly due to an abysmal performance in French hypermarkets (France accounts for 44% of the group's sales).
Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) said that it managed an unexpected operating profit in its first fiscal quarter, thanks in part to sales of televisions and VCRs ahead of the tournament.
Samsung expects strong seasonal demand to drive sales of its diverse portfolio of smartphones in the fourth quarter assisted by the launch of new premium devices, including GALAXY Nexus which features the latest Android 4.0 operating system for the first time in a smartphone, and the 5.3-inch GALAXY Note which is opening a new mobile device category.
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